FORMER Soviet republic Kazakhstan is poised to begin the chemical castration of convicted paedophiles. A sex attacker in Turkestan region is to undergo an injection supervised by the country’s health ministry, officials announced.

Express.co.uk

Mon, Sep 24, 2018

The forcible castration is punishment for being found guilty of a paedophile attack in April 2016.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev has allocated £20,500 for some 2,000 injections on men who commit child sex attacks this year.

Deputy health minister Lyazat Aktayeva said: “At the moment there has been one request for chemical castration in accordance with a court ruling.”

The identity off the man has not been revealed.

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) sexual violence”.

Child sex crimes also carry prison sentences of up to 20 years in Kazakhstan.

Unlike surgical castration, chemical castration does not prevent a person from experiencing sexual urges indefinitely.

Sceptics argue it does not necessarily prevent future attacks.

Reports say child rapes in Kazakhstan doubled to around 1,000 a year in the period between 2010 and 2014.

Kazakhstan will use Cyproterone, a steroidal anti-androgen developed for fighting cancer, say reports.

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