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Molester faces lock-and-key parole

April 8, 1996
Web posted at: 3:10 p.m. EDT

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) -- A convicted pedophile who warned of his uncontrollable urge to molest children and threatened to kill his next victims was released from prison Monday under "unprecedented" parole restrictions.

Larry Don McQuay, 32, left the Skyview psychiatric prison in the east Texas town of Rusk for a halfway house in his hometown of San Antonio, where he will live under 24-hour supervision for up to two years.

"He will not be allowed to walk the streets alone," said Larry Fitzgerald, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. "He will not have a job. He will be monitored 24 hours a day."

McQuay had been scheduled to move to a halfway house in Houston last week, but the Texas Pardons and Paroles Board decided this weekend to send him to the Bexar County Intermediate Sanctions Facility near San Antonio.

"He has agreed to the restrictions of his mandatory release, which are some of the most restrictive ever issued to an individual," said Larry Todd, another department spokesman. "I don't think there's any problem using the word 'unprecedented.'

The unusually stiff restrictions McQuay agreed to follow are the result of public outrage about the case as well as McQuay's letters threatening to kill his next victims. He admitted he cannot control the compulsion to molest and calls himself a "child-molesting demon."

McQuay will not leave the Bexar County facility for the first several months of his parole except for medical treatment or therapy.

While in prison, McQuay repeatedly asked Texas authorities to castrate him, in hopes it would stop his urge to molest. Texas Prison officials said they could not require McQuay to undergo castration as a condition of his parole. However, they said he could go through the procedure voluntarily.

McQuay was imprisoned for molesting a 6-year-old boy in San Antonio in 1989. He admitted molesting over 240 children before he was caught. McQuay served six years of an eight-year sentence and qualified for mandatory release under Texas law.

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