Judge orders Louisiana child rapist who assaulted pre-teen girl chemically castrated

A convicted child rapist received a sentence consisting of chemical castration after admitting to raping a girl earlier this month, as well as 35 years in state prison.

Ryan Clark, 34, of Louisiana, received the harsh sentence in the state’s 21st Judicial Court on Tuesday, after the prosecutor said he pleaded guilty to felony charges of rape in the second degree, sexual assault of a minor and sexual assault on March 1.

The name of Clark’s victim was withheld due to her age, but documents filed during the trial of the case confirmed that the girl was under 13 at the time of the crimes, which witnesses say took place over more than one year old

The chemical injections, Judge Brian Ables wrote, will be administered a week before the sex demon is released, which, at the earliest, will be in 2048 if he is granted parole.

A somewhat controversial process, chemical castration refers to a series of injections of a drug that rapidly lowers 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 that made it law.

That said, the process is reserved for the worst sex offenders in the state: those convicted of crimes like child molestation, aggravated rape, forcible rape, and aggravated incest.

Falling into that category is Clark, who sports a prior arrest for “knowledge” of an unrelated child-on-child sex act in 2015, a charge that was considered a misdemeanor at the time despite its inherent depravity.

It also saw Clark, who will only gain sex offender status after serving his new sentence, hit with an offer of 128 days in Tangipahoa Parish Jail.

Now facing a much longer stay at a state facility after pleading guilty to all charges filed against him on March 1, Clark may also have sexually assaulted a second victim, prosecutors said, though details of both incidents they were not disclosed by the local prosecutor. office, probably due to the ages of those involved.

However, the Tangipahoa Parish district attorney revealed that an investigation that culminated in Clark’s arrest in July 2020 took place for just two weeks out of those same months, after officers were notified of the incidents between Clark and a minor.

Prosecutor Scott Perrilloux said that at that time, the office received a tip about “inappropriate behavior” between Clark and the unidentified minor by a person 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 investigate the claims and before discovering another potential victim, which would lead them to arrest Clark at his Kentwood home on July 17, 2020.

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

The statements, as well as the police investigation, served not only to arrest Clark, but also to get him to accept a plea deal that saw him acknowledge his crimes for a more lenient sentence.

Now, after two years of talks about the fate of the repeat offenders, jurists have chosen to hold Clark responsible for the aforementioned 35-year sentence, 25 of which will be served without the possibility of parole.

While it is yet to be pronounced, the worst of Judge Ables’ sentencing will likely come after that time has passed, when an outgoing Clark will be subject to the controversial medical injections.

Injections of the little-known drug called medroxyprogesterone acetate will suppress the sex drive of ex-convicts to the point where it will be non-existent.

The injections must 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 written by Sen. Nick Gautreaux and later approved by Republican Jindal, who left office in 2016.

The purpose of the treatments, officials said at the time, is to permanently diminish the perpetrator’s sexual fantasies while lowering their sexual urges, thus preventing future crimes.

While not necessarily spread across all kinds of sexual abuse, the therapy was seen as effective punishment in Clark’s case and was part of his deal with local prosecutors.

Scheduled to begin immediately, Clark’s sentencing serves as a rare occurrence, due to chemical castration is usually a condition of obtaining an early release.

That said, it’s unclear if Clark’s agreement with prosecutors includes any charges related to the second “possible” victim, or if part of the agreement included police canceling any further investigation into any other possible crimes.

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

DailyMail.com has contacted Perrilloux’s office for comment.