In Texas, in May 2012, Craig Stephen Hoard, a repeat sex offender, was sentenced to seven life sentences. Hoard was convicted of indecency in 1977 and was released on parole in February 2001. Seven days later, he was convicted of sexual intercourse with a child. He spent nine years in state prison. Three months after being released from his nine-year prison sentence in 2010, he was arrested again. In June 2010, police arrested Hoard after discovering child pornography on his computer and iPod. A video of Hoard was found of him in the restroom of a pizzeria in Conroe, asking a five-year-old child to expose his genitals. Judge Hamilton can't change what Hoard has done to many children in the past, but she can stop Hoard from harming another child. Judge Hamilton sentenced Hoard to seven life terms. District Attorney Brett Ligon was quoted as saying, "Mr. Hoard has proven that he cannot control his predatory nature." Sex offenders betray the trust that humans have in other humans. Many victims of sex offenders feel that their rights have been betrayed by another human being. This leaves victims with a lot of emotional and physical damage that they will never be able to forget. Sexual abuse violates a person's rights and trust in other humans. Physical castration is an extreme punishment that benefits both the offender and the victim in the simplest way. Having an extreme punishment like physical castration will help prevent any further offenses from occurring. While giving the offender both a clean slate and minimized risk of reoffending, physical castration is the most effective punishment compared to all others and it gives the greatest peace of mind to victims while being the most profitable. the offender could get a... middle of paper...... start his new life. Physical castration is a very severe punishment but by far the easiest and gives the best results. Physical castration has the greatest benefits for the offender, the victims and those around them. The operation gives the offender a clean slate to reintegrate into society. Offenders who underwent this surgery had one of the lowest recidivism rates of any other sentence studied. Chemical castration, neurosurgery, and therapy are all punishments that do not work as well as physical castration. Knowing that the offender has undergone the operation gives the surrounding public peace of mind while living in society with these offenders. Physical castration is by far the cheapest and easiest punishment of all the other punishments studied. Although physical castration is very invasive and considered unethical, it gives the best results among all other punishments..