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Russian Duma takes up chemical castration bill for child molesters
Jul 12, 2011, 11:50 GMT
Moscow - Russia's national legislature the State Duma on Tuesday took up a bill proposing so-called chemical castration as a possible punishment for child molesters, the Interfax news agency reported.
The procedure would be performed by chemical treatments on the convict, according to a press statement from the office of President Dmitry Medvedev, who introduced the bill to the Duma.
A medical and psychological panel would have to determine the convict was likely to molest minors in the future for such a method to be deemed legally necessary, according to the statement.
A convict could however request the treatment voluntarily in order to reduce his sentence or obtain parole, Interfax reported.
Other measures under the proposed law would allow the forced administration of drugs and compulsory treatment of child molesters at a psychiatric hospital, were a judge to rule it necessary.
The bill, which generally proposed generally stricter criminal code, also suggested mandatory sentences of life imprisonment for chronic child molesters.
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