Nation IN BRIEF : TEXAS : Castration Called Molester’s Option

Texas officials can urge a convicted child molester to undergo castration but can’t make the surgical procedure a requirement for his getting out of prison, the parole board’s chairman said. The Board of Pardons and Paroles will make sure Larry Don McQuay--who has said he will molest again once he is released, killing his young victims this time so they will not be able to identify him--knows he is free to get castrated as he wishes, board Chairman Victor Rodriguez said. He said people have come forward offering to pay for the procedure.