Paedos in Kazakhstan were interviewed on TV sharing their ordeal as part of a media campaign by the authorities to warn would-be male sex attackers
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Convicted paedophiles upset after undergoing forced castration in Kazakhstan
Convicted paedophiles have told of their anguish after undergoing forced castration.
Men guilty of child sex offences in Kazakhstan now face chemical castration as part of the country’s tough new laws against paedophilia.
They have been interviewed on TV telling about their ordeal as part of a media campaign by the authorities to warn would-be male sex attackers.
The chemical castration is carried out by regular injections and will continue after their jail sentences end.
One paedophile said on TV: “I know it’s harmful to my body. I know it will affect my health in future.”
Another said: “Now I am sorry I committed such a crime.”
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One convict pleaded: “By my example, I want to show men they should not commit such terrible offences.
“I beg those who prescribed me chemical castration – cancel your decision. I am still very young.”
A prisoner named Marat, who is serving a 15-year prison sentence for the attempted rape of a child, told how he had had three castration injections so far and it has stopped him from getting erections.
He said: “Everything is really bad in terms of my man’s health.
“I need a sexual life yet nothing works down there. Why castrate me? I admit I’m guilty. But I want to live further. I still have my family and children.”
Another convicted paedo, aged 50, found guilty of raping a schoolgirl, 14, said: “They have sentenced me to 17 years. I was brought here in February this year.
“I have children back home, some of them are minors. Now they say I will face castration.”
The country claims its tough approach has led to a 15 per cent fall in attacks on children, though statistics for paedophile offences have risen, perhaps due to higher reporting levels.
After the first castrations in Kazakhstan, one man said he was left “aching so badly”.
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A child rapist said: “It is incredibly difficult, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.”
He called for a ban on the “barbaric” procedure.
Those tasked with castrating paedophiles in one jail claim the West should also follow the ex-Soviet state’s example.
Zoya Manaenko, 69, insists it is right that child sex attackers should face this ultimate punishment.
She said: “These people need to be stopped somehow.
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“They commit terrible crimes against children. So it is right that the law allows this.”
Kazakhstan’s no-tolerance policy includes publishing pictures, names and addresses of all child sex attackers after their release from jail.
But the castration laws only apply to those convicted after the laws came into effect.
Magzhan Yesimbek, deputy head of one penal colony, said that he had more than 100 paedophiles in his prison but only three had been castrated under the law.