{"id":84409,"date":"2025-08-21T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84409\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:30:09","slug":"thomas-allen-mccartney-convicted-paedophile-agrees-to-castration-as-part-of-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84409\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Allen McCartney: Convicted paedophile agrees to castration as part of plea deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT<\/p>\n

A man who attempted to rape a seven-year-old child in 2023 has agreed to be castrated as part of a plea deal.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Thomas Allen McCartney, 37, pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted rape of a child under the age of 13 in Vernon Parish, Louisiana.<\/p>\n

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As part of the plea deal, he agreed to undergo both surgical and chemical castration, as well as serve 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n

In 2023, a mother walked in on McCartney while he was \u201cengaging in sexual conduct\u201d with her seven-year-old child. McCartney then left in a vehicle, and police later arrested him in East Houston, Texas, KPLC<\/a> reported at the time.<\/p>\n

Vernon Parish District Attorney Terry Lambright said this horrific crime should have never happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cThomas McCartney is a predator that needs to be locked away from others in our community,\u201d Mr Lambright told People<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now that McCartney has pleaded guilty, it can be revealed that he is considered a \u201ctier three\u201d registered sex offender in the state of Louisiana and had previously been convicted of attempted aggravated rape in 2011.<\/p>\n

Louisiana recently passed legislation which made it the first US state to permit physical (surgical) castration as a penalty for sexual offences.<\/p>\n

The new laws came into effect at the start of August, and allow judges to order people found guilty of particular sex crimes against minors to undergo surgical castration.<\/p>\n

The permanent procedure involves the removal of reproductive organs, either the testicles or ovaries, ultimately stopping the body from producing sex hormones.<\/p>\n

These laws are rare, but do exist in other places including Madagascar, the Czech Republic, Kaduna State in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Surgical castration is controversial amongst international human rights groups, with Amnesty International having previously urged Madagascar to repeal its legalisation on both chemical and surgical castration.<\/p>\n

Other states, including California and Florida, already allow chemical castration as punishment for some sex crimes. This is also controversial.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know needs help, contact 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732), or Sexual Assault Counselling Australia on 1800 211 028 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.<\/p>\n

Young people seeking support can phone beyondblue on 1300 22 4636 or go to headspace.org.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A man who attempted to rape a seven-year-old child in 2023 has agreed to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,2957,1720],"class_list":["post-84409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}