Nevada's Fiore suggests castration for pimps

Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson, D-Reno, is an advocate against sex trafficking in the Nevada Legislature. Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, was in a recent committee hearing with Benitez-Thompson about the subject that is at crisis level in Las Vegas.

Fiore said on Nevada Newsmakers Monday that she has a solution to the sex trafficking issue in Nevada — castration for those who push the trafficking.

Fiore recalled her testimony in the committee meeting: "I said if you really want to get serious about stopping the pimps and stopping this horrific activity with sex trafficking our children, come to us, the legislators, with a bill for chemical castration or straight-up castration.

"As I said to you, just prior to this sentence, I am sensible about having prisons without bars, people on parole or probation within their homes," Fiore said. "However, when we have these heinous crimes of rape and murder and sex trafficking of children, I have zero tolerance for it and I think the solution would be castration."

She said then to host Sam Shad:

"If you think if you are a man, I really seriously think that would take a big effect — when these pimps understand that it is going to cost them their most valued possession."

Shad then asked Fiore is there any place in the nation that "was doing this?"

Fiore said: "There was in New Orleans and it got overturned."