Children Live With Scars Forever. Should Their Abusers Face Castration?

Last year, Louisiana became the first state to authorize surgical castration for child molesters. Last month, Thomas Allen McCartney, a convicted serial child rapist, was sentenced to both surgical and chemical castration as part of a plea deal, having confessed to the attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl.

Louisiana, however, may not be an outlier for long.