By Antynet Ford
The parliament of Madagascar has approved the surgical castration of Pedophiles for their crimes in a new law passed. On February 2 Madagascar’s parliament, The National Assembly, approved a law that legalized the castration of child rapists. The old law stated that those found guilty of raping a minor would face between five and 20 years of forced labor.
However, this new law states that those found guilty of raping a child under 10 years old will be surgically castrated and sentenced to life imprisonment. If the victim is between 10 and 13 years old, they will instead be chemically castrated and face 15 to 20 years of forced labour.
If the rapist is also a minor they will escape castration. Minister of Justice Landy Randriamanantenasoa spoke in favor of the bill. Le Quotidien, a French language newspaper, reported that Ms Randriamanantenasoa said: ‘Society must know what they did and who they are.’
The bill was proposed by the President of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, last month and was one of his key campaign promises during his re-election bid last year.
The new law comes just days after Kazakhstan announced a similar law where the country’s worst offending child sex offenders will have their genitals surgically removed.
Kazakhstan announced its draft law to remove pedophiles’ genitals on February 6 following complaints from MPs that the current law where pedophiles are chemically castrated was not deterring child sex offenders.
The tightening of the law follows the death of Erkezhan Nurmakhan, five, who was lured to a pedophile’s house after he offered her money for an ice cream.