Judge orders a Louisiana child rapist who attacked a pre-teen girl to be chemically castrated

A convicted child rapist has been slapped with a sentence that consists of chemical castration after admitting to raping a young girl earlier this month – as well as 35 years in state prison.

Ryan Clark, 34, of Louisiana, was hit with the stern sentence in the state’s 21st Judicial Court on Tuesday, after prosecutor said he pleaded guilty to felony charges of second-degree rape, molestation of a juvenile, and sexual battery on March 1. 

The name of Clark’s victim was not revealed due to her age, but documents filed over the course of the case’s proceedings confirmed the girl was under 13 at the time of the crimes, which witnesses said were carried out for more than a year.

The chemical injections, Judge Brian Ables wrote, are to be given a week before the sex fiend is released – which, at the absolute earliest, will be 2048 if he is granted parole.

A somewhat controversial process, chemical castration refers to a series of injections of a drug that rapidly reduces a man’s testosterone levels. 

Only legal in nine states, the treatment has been allowed in Louisiana since 2008 when then Governor Bobby Jindal signed the bill passing it into law.

That said, the process is reserved for the state’s worst sex criminals – those convicted of crimes such as molestation of a juvenile, aggravated rape, forcible rape, and aggravated incest.

Falling into that category is Clark, who sports a prior arrest for ‘having knowledge’ of an unrelated minor-on-minor sex act in 2015 – a charge that at the time was deemed a misdemeanor despite its inherent depravity.

It also saw Clark, who will only obtain sex offender status after serving his new sentence, hit with a 128 day-bid in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail.

Now facing a much more prolonged stay in a state-level facility after pleading guilty to all charges leveled against him on March 1, Clark may have also molested a second victim, prosecutors said – though details of both incidents were not disclosed by the local DA’s office, likely due to the ages of those involved.

The Tangipahoa Parish DA, however, did reveal that an investigation culminating with Clark’s July 2020 arrest took place over just two weeks that same months, after deputies were notified about the incidents between Clark and a juvenile. 

The chemical injections, Judge Brian Ables wrote, are to be given a week before the sex fiend is released – which, at the absolute earliest, will be 2048 if Clark is granted parole

Only legal in nine states, the treatment has been allowed in Louisiana since 2008 when then Governor Bobby Jindal signed the bill passing it into law. He left office in 2016

DA Scott Perrilloux said that, at the time, the office received a tip about ‘inappropriate behavior’ between Clark and the unidentified minor by a person whom the victim had confided in,

The person, also not named, told authorities the behavior had gone on for more than a year. Authorities would go to probe the claims and before discovering another potential victim, leading them to arrest Clark at his Kentwood home on July 17, 2020.

Perriloux’s office added that prior to the arrest, Clark’s sole confirmed victim was interviewed at the Children’s Advocacy Center in Hammond, where she gave police statements on the then alleged incidents.

The statements, as well as the police probe, served as enough to not only arrest Clark, but for him accept a plea deal that saw him own up to his crimes for a more lenient sentence.

Now, after two years of talks as to the repeat offenders’ fate, jurists elected to hold Clark accountable with the aforementioned 35-year sentence – 25 year of which will be served without the possibility of parole.

While still pronounced, the worst of Judge Ables’ sentence arguably comes when that time has passed – when an outgoing Clark will be subject to the controversial medical injections.

Clark also has a prior arrest for ‘having knowledge’ of an unrelated minor-on-minor sex act in 2015 – a charge that was deemed a misdemeanor despite its inherent depravity. It also saw the hit with a 128 day-bid in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail (seen here)

The shots of the little-known drug called medroxyprogesterone acetate will suppress the ex-cons’ sex drive to the point where it is non-existent. 

The injections are to be given at least a week before a convicted sex offender is released from prison, according to the 2008 bill that legalized surgical castration in the Bayou State.

That bill was authored by Sen. Nick Gautreaux, and subsequently passed by two-term Republican Jindal, who left office in 2016. 

The treatments’ purpose, officials said at the time, is to permanently diminish perpetrator’s sexual fantasies while decreasing their sexual impulses, thereby preventing any future offenses.

While not necessarily dished out in all sexual abuse classes, the therapy was deemed an effective punishment in Clark’s case, and came as a part of his deal with local prosecutors.

DA Scott Perrilloux said his office learned of Clark’s crimes after receiving a tip about ‘inappropriate behavior’ between him and the unidentified minor by a person whom the victim had confided in

Set to commence immediately, Clark’s sentence serves as somewhat rare, due to chemical castration typically being a condition to garner an early release.

That said, it is not clear whether Clark’s deal with prosecutors includes any charges connected with the second ‘possible’ victim, or if part of the agreement included cops calling off any further investigations into any other prospective crimes.

No additional details pertaining to any of his crimes have been released. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to Perrilloux’s office for comment.