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Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region's district attorney.

Glenn Sullivan Sr., 54, pled guilty to four counts of second-degree rape on April 17. Authorities began investigating Sullivan in July 2022, when a young woman told the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office that Sullivan had assaulted her multiple times when she was 14. The assaults resulted in pregnancy, and a DNA test confirmed that Sullivan was the father of the child, the district attorney's office said. Sullivan had also groomed the victim and threatened her and her family to prevent her from coming forward.

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A 2008 Louisiana law says that men convicted of certain rape offenses may be sentenced to chemical castration. They can also elect to be physically castrated. Perrilloux said that Sullivan's plea requires he be physically castrated. The process will be carried out by the state's Department of Corrections, according to the law, but cannot be conducted more than a week before a person's prison sentence ends. This means Sullivan wouldn't be castrated until a week before the end of his 50-year sentence — when he would be more than 100 years old.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Rape is funny when it happens to bad people, i guess. And no, rape does not teach anything. It just traumatizes.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that a good way to teach the trauma a person caused? And I don't see what place is there for hollywood civility when the person clearly ignored the social contract (so he isn't part of it)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Most Bullies experience domestic violence before they abuse their fellow students. Most child rapists have experienced child molestation. Traumatization does not fix people, it does not correct people, it breaks them. An eye for an eye is a shit way to actually run a society. My partner comes from a society that executes people for "violating the social contract". It is an absolut shithole of a justice system, in which prisoners are completely dehumanized and I do not wish for anyone to live under that particular system of justice. Its not about civility, its about absence of cruelty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

While I do question the "trauma causes people who cause trauma", I guess I can agree that trauma just breaks people.

Prisoners being 'completely dehumanized" sounds like a separate issue, concerning the country in question. And maybe points to some details of its culture that are actually making traumatization part of society.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That dehumanization is inherent in the idea of withholding "civility" from those, who you deem to have violated the social contract.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

True.

However, I did not intend to paint it so black and white. I imagined the social contract not to be immediately null and void, but rather, with regards to punishment, to be irrelevant, up to the damages of the crime.

[–] Huckledebuck 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No one knows how someone will react to trauma. That's why it doesn't teach anything. Few people can come out of that and be, "Oh, I get it now!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I guess you're right.