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https://www.al.com/news/2018/10/now...-3-time-sex-offender-asks-for-castration.html
A three-time sex offender, who is now accused of raping a 79-year-old Huntsville woman, has asked an Alabama judge to order he be castrated.
Stephen Gordon Bunyard has multiple sex offense convictions dating back to the 1980s, according to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency records. Now, he’s charged with first-degree rape and failure to register as a sex offender, court records show. Bunyard also is known by two aliases: Melvin Knight and Kevin Neil Means, records show.
Bunyard, 56, was in court today to be sentenced on a probation violation. Through his lawyer, Bunyard asked the judge to issue a lighter sentence in exchange for an order that he be castrated.
“I certainly don’t have the authority to order castration,” said Madison County Circuit Judge James Smith.
Alabama doesn’t have a law on the books that allows judges to sentence convicts to undergo castration. As recently as 2016, state Rep. Steve Hurst has filed legislation that would require anyone convicted of sexually assaulting a child to be surgically castrated before being released from prison. The legislation didn’t gain enough support to become state law.
Some states allow sex offenders to opt for castration, according to ABC News.
Smith instead ordered Bunyard to 30 years in prison for violating the terms of his probation in a 2007 sex crime conviction.
A three-time sex offender, who is now accused of raping a 79-year-old Huntsville woman, has asked an Alabama judge to order he be castrated.
Stephen Gordon Bunyard has multiple sex offense convictions dating back to the 1980s, according to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency records. Now, he’s charged with first-degree rape and failure to register as a sex offender, court records show. Bunyard also is known by two aliases: Melvin Knight and Kevin Neil Means, records show.
Bunyard, 56, was in court today to be sentenced on a probation violation. Through his lawyer, Bunyard asked the judge to issue a lighter sentence in exchange for an order that he be castrated.
“I certainly don’t have the authority to order castration,” said Madison County Circuit Judge James Smith.
Alabama doesn’t have a law on the books that allows judges to sentence convicts to undergo castration. As recently as 2016, state Rep. Steve Hurst has filed legislation that would require anyone convicted of sexually assaulting a child to be surgically castrated before being released from prison. The legislation didn’t gain enough support to become state law.
Some states allow sex offenders to opt for castration, according to ABC News.
Smith instead ordered Bunyard to 30 years in prison for violating the terms of his probation in a 2007 sex crime conviction.