Frank Phillip Tullier agreed to surgery to get out of jail
(NEWSER) - A convicted child molester is about to go free—and all it cost him was his you-know-what. Francis Phillip Tullier, 78, underwent voluntary surgical castration yesterday as part of a long-delayed plea deal, the AP reports. The procedure was conducted at Tullier's expense. Tullier had faced hundreds of molestation counts over his abuse of three girls, ages 6 to 12, in Louisiana. "They had enough [evidence] to send him up for two or three life sentences," Tullier's lawyer tells the Daily Mail . "He had no chance of getting out of prison unless we did something unusual." More»