Molester Asks Castration at County’s Expense
A convicted child molester locked up in a state mental facility under the state’s law on sexually violent predators wants Santa Cruz County to pay for his castration.
Gregory Donald Grant, committed to Atascadero State Hospital since 1998, told a judge Thursday that he wants the county to pay to have his testicles removed so his chances for parole would improve.
County spokeswoman Dinah Phillips said the county is researching the matter.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Christine McGuire said she does not see such surgery as an appropriate expense for the county.
In 1983, Grant, 56, was sentenced to 29 years in prison for kidnapping, forcibly molesting and sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy in a motel.
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