Larry Don McQuay
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Larry Don McQuay is a convicted child molester who requested to be surgically castrated in 1995. His case sparked national debate over the effectiveness of so-called "chemical castration" drugs, such as Depo-Provera, versus actual, physical castration in the treatment of sex offenders.
McQuay, a former San Antonio, Texas school bus driver, was sentenced to six years in prison in 1990 for molesting a six-year-old boy. Released early for good behavior in 1995, McQuay, who described himself as a "child-molesting demon" and admitted to abusing around 240 children, demanded to be castrated so he could not molest again. If the procedure were not performed, McQuay claimed, he would not only molest again but kill his next victims so they would not testify against him.
McQuay was reincarcerated in 1997 after confessing to molesting a boy in 1989, and was given a 20-year sentence. That same year, Texas Legislature passed a law allowing convicted sex offenders still considered dangers to society to undergo voluntary surgical castration.
McQuay was mandatorily released in May 2005 for time served and good behavior, although he will be on parole and required to wear an electronic tracking device for the next 11 years. His lawyer said that he was surgically castrated in prison the year before, but this has not yet been conclusively proven.
