Shortly before the 2019 New Year, accused child molester Carl Guerin severed his own testicles in his Santa Cruz County jail cell. According to an article published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Mr Guerin plans to plead innocent to the 16 felony charges against him.

This incident is similar to Jason Gouldon’s situation in a number of ways:

• The obvious one, they are both accused child rapists. Clearly sick individuals.
• They are both brining this to trial instead of facing their inevitable fates. As discussed in another post regarding Mr. Gouldon, his court date is set for 11/4/2019. Mr. Guerin’s date was previously set for 11/8/2017 but according to the Santa Cruz Superior Court public case access portal, there is no upcoming date set for trial.
• Santa Cruz District Attorney Steven Moore is the lead attorney on both cases.
• Defense attorney Douglas Fox represents both Jason Gouldon and Carl Guerin.

Interestingly, castration is not uncommon for severe sex offenders like rapists and molesters. An article published by abc News titled, “Some Sex Offenders Opt for Castration” discusses this. Because California is one of seven states that mandates continued civil confinement of convicted sex offenders (even after their prison term expires), many of them have opted in the past to be surgically or chemically castrated to avoid indefinite prison sentences.

So in this case, Mr. Guerin opted for the same, but took the matter into his own hands.