Chennai, Oct 26: Madras High Court has a solution for curbing sex offences against children- castration. A Madras HC judge has suggested that the Central government consider castration as an additional form of punishment for child sex abusers.
“When law is ineffective and incapable of addressing the menace, this court cannot keep its hands folded and remain a silent spectator, unmoved and oblivious of the recent happenings of horrible blood-curdling gang rapes of children in various parts of India,” Justice N. Kirubakaran said in a recent order.
Calling the brutal gangrape of children in Delhi last week a “blood-curdling” and “horrific” incident, Justice Kirubakaran said castration must be an additional punishment for child abusers, especially child rapists.
He said castration for child rapists would fetch “magical” results in preventing child abuse. He pointed to the fact that the conviction rate in cases of sex offence against children is a mere 2.4% and that between 2008 and 2014, crimes against children had increased by 400 per cent.
Castration is done on child sex offenders in Poland, Russia, Estonia and nine US states including California, Florida, Oregon, Texas and Washington, he said, adding, “South Korea was the first Asian country to make castration a punishment.”
The judge said this while dismissing a petition by the accused, a British national, who sought the quashing of the proceedings against him in a lower court. The British national had paid money to the boy’s mother and promised to offer quality education to the boy. He took him to Delhi where he stayed with the boy in a room and assaulted him, all in 2011. After a service organization moved court and got the boy rescued, a case was registered and a chargesheet too was filed.
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