A paedophile in Kazakhstan will be the first of thousands to be chemically castrated as punishment for child sex attacks.
The unnamed man from the Turkestan region will be injected under supervision from the country’s health ministry to prevent him from carrying out sexual violence.
But the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has already allocated £20,500 to carry out as many as 2,000 injections on men found to be paedophiles this year.
Kazakhstan introduced a new law on chemical castration at the start of 2018, with deputy health minister Lyazzat Aktayeva confirming there has so far been one request for the punishment after a court ruling.
‘Funds have been allocated for more than 2,000 injections,’ Aktayeva added.
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’.
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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 and it does not make a person infertile.
Sceptics argue it does not necessarily prevent future attacks.
Metro.
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