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A convicted child rapist has been slapped with a sentence that consists of chemical castration after admitting to raping a young girl earlier this month - as well as 35 years in state prison.

Ryan Clark, 34, of Louisiana, was hit with the stern sentence in the state's 21st Judicial Court on Tuesday, after prosecutor said he pleaded guilty to felony charges of second-degree rape, molestation of a juvenile, and sexual battery on March 1. 

The name of Clark's victim was not revealed due to her age, but documents filed over the course of the case's proceedings confirmed the girl was under 13 at the time of the crimes, which witnesses said were carried out for more than a year.

The chemical injections, Judge Brian Ables wrote, are to be given a week before the sex fiend is released - which, at the absolute earliest, will be 2048 if he is granted parole.

A somewhat controversial process, chemical castration refers to a series of injections of a drug that rapidly reduces a man's testosterone levels. 

Only legal in nine states, the treatment has been allowed in Louisiana since 2008 when then Governor Bobby Jindal signed the bill passing it into law.

That said, the process is reserved for the state's worst sex criminals - those convicted of crimes such as molestation of a juvenile, aggravated rape, forcible rape, and aggravated incest.

Falling into that category is Clark, who sports a prior arrest for 'having knowledge' of an unrelated minor-on-minor sex act in 2015 - a charge that at the time was deemed a misdemeanor despite its inherent depravity.

It also saw Clark, who will only obtain sex offender status after serving his new sentence, hit with a 128 day-bid in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail.

Now facing a much more prolonged stay in a state-level facility after pleading guilty to all charges leveled against him on March 1, Clark may have also molested a second victim, prosecutors said - though details of both incidents were not disclosed by the local DA's office, likely due to the ages of those involved.

The Tangipahoa Parish DA, however, did reveal that an investigation culminating with Clark's July 2020 arrest took place over just two weeks that same months, after deputies were notified about the incidents between Clark and a juvenile.