Another Convicted Child Sex Offender Getting Out

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Convicted Child Sex Offender Due For Release

McQuay Once Asked To Be Castrated

POSTED: 6:59 am CDT April 12, 2005

SAN ANTONIO -- Larry Don McQuay, a convicted sex offender who once asked to be castrated, is due for mandatory release in May.

McQuay is currently serving a 20-year sentence, but with good behavior and time served, is scheduled for release May 3, eight years into his sentence. He would more than likely be released in Bexar County.

Bonnie Blayney, a retired child advocate who is familiar with McQuay, said he is still a threat to children.

"He has made some very scary statements about killing the next child, and we're letting him out?" Blayney said in an interview Monday with KSAT 12 News.

Blayney recalls a statement McQuay made in an interview in 2003 when he said he couldn't guarantee he wouldn't commit more crimes against children when he is released. McQuay later said it was a plea for help.

After McQuay was released in 1996 for molesting a 7-year-old boy, he admitted to another sex crime involving a child, and it was then when he was returned to prison that McQuay asked to be castrated. Prison officials will not say if they granted McQuay's request, which under Texas law, is permissible.

Blayney said if McQuay was castrated, it won't make a difference.

"The event starts in the head and often ends up in the hands, so what good is it going to be to castrate him," she said.

Blayney said she is worried that McQuay will be released into a high-tech world.

"If he gets a hold of a computer and gets Internet access, he has a much bigger chance of accessing children," she added.

The limitations of McQuay's release will be determined by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.