This country plans to chemically castrate men for raping minors
India Today
A South American country has introduced a bill to chemically castrate men for raping minors. Read on to find out what the bill entails.
Peru's government will present a bill to allow for chemical castration as a penalty for raping a minor, Cabinet members told reporters on Wednesday, following national outrage over the rape of a 3-year-old girl.
"We consider that this measure will be an additional penalty for those who commit rape," said Justice Minister Felix Chero.
He said the government hopes those who rape minors will serve prison time and be chemically castrated at the end of their sentences.
The move comes after a 48-year-old man was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of raping the 3-year-old girl, who had to undergo surgery after the ordeal.
President Pedro Castillo, a socially conservative former schoolteacher, has been supportive of the bill, saying people who rape minors need to be punished in an exemplary fashion.
"We hope that Congress will back (the bill)," Castillo said earlier this week.
To become law, the bill will have to pass through Peru's Opposition-controlled Congress. Conservatives make up the majority of lawmakers, including some who have made an alternative proposal to include the death penalty as punishment for rape of a minor.
