Kazakhstan paedophile to be chemically castrated
It comes months after a new law was passed permitting the method as punishment for paedophilia.
The unnamed man from the Turkestan region is to undergo an injection supervised by the country’s health ministry, officials announced.
President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has allocated £20,500 for some 2,000 injections on men who commit child s*x attacks this year.
Deputy health minister Lyazzat Aktayeva said:
At the moment there has been one request for chemical castration in accordance with a court ruling.
Kazakhstan introduced a new law on chemical castration at the start of this year.
Funds have been allocated for more than 2,000 injections, revealed Aktayeva.
When the law was passed, senator Byrganym Aitimova said that castration would be “temporary”, consisting of a “one-time injection” based on “the necessity of preventing the man from (committing) s*xual violence”.
Child s*x crimes also carry prison sentences of up to 20 years in Kazakhstan.
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