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​Ukrainian Parliament Passes Law On Chemical Castration For Paedophiles

​Ukrainian Parliament Passes Law On Chemical Castration For Paedophiles

Under the new system, Ukrinform says paedophiles will reportedly undergo ‘coercive chemical castration’

Jess Hardiman

Jess Hardiman

Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has passed new laws to castrate paedophiles by chemical injection, news agency Ukrinform reports.

Under the new system, Ukrinform says paedophiles will undergo 'coercive chemical castration', which 'involves the forced injection of anti-androgen drugs consisting of chemicals that should reduce libido and sexual activity'.

According to the news agency, a total of 247 MPs voted for the move at a parliament meeting on Thursday 11 July.

The law hopes to help improve the way in which sexual abuse of children is combated in Ukraine.

It will apply to all child rapes, including 'unnatural' rape and sexual abuse of children above and below the age of puberty.

Each year, the legislation will potentially apply to thousands of men aged 18-65 found guilty of raping or sexually abusing minors.

In 2017, official figures revealed that there were 320 child rapes in Ukraine, but the numbers of paedophile sex abuse cases are believed to run into the thousands.

National police chief Vyacheslav Abroskin said: "Five children were raped in four regions of Ukraine... within just 24 hours.

"And these are the crimes which parents reported to police despite their fear and anxiety to do so.

"We can only guess how many latent sexual crimes against children we have in the country."

In a recent case in Odessa, an 11-year-old girl called Daria Lukyanenko was killed after trying to fight back against an alleged rape attempt by a family friend, 22-year-old Nikolay Tarasov.

Daria Lukyanenko.
East2West News

Her body was found in a village cesspool after a six-day search.

Under the new laws, Ukraine is also planning to set up a public register of paedophiles jailed for child rape and sexual abuse of minors, with such criminals then being monitored for life by police after they are released from jail.

The maximum jail term for raping a child has also been increased from 12 to 15 years.

Radical Party leader Oleg Lyashko, who proposed the castration move, said: "Ukrainian law does not have a life term or death penalty for sex crimes against children.

"And it is very unlikely that the rapist would not be back to his 'business' again after release from jail."

This was why castration was needed, he said.

A Ukrainian flag flying above the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament.
PA

Kazakhstan is another ex-Soviet state that permits the chemical castration of sex offenders, following a report that said child rapes doubled to around 1,000 a year in the period between 2010 and 2014.

While Ukraine did not specify the chemical cocktail it will use, Kazakhstan had purchased stocks of Cyproterone, a steroidal anti-androgen developed for fighting cancer, with doctors administering the injections.

"It causes the lowering of libido," said urologist Dr Mirzakhmet Zhanadilov.

"The medication is different for each person.

"That is, medication that is enough for one person to prevent repeated (sexual) offending, others can be resistant to.

"For them, not only do we administer the drug but control testosterone too."

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: World News, News