S Korean court
orders 1st chemical castration of child rapist
In a landmark ruling, a South Korean
court today
sentenced a 31-year-old pedophile to 15 years
in
jail and ordered
the country's first ever chemical castration.
The
ruling is the first since the country passed a law
in
2011 that allows
hormonal treatment or chemical castration for
convicted child
molesters, who are at risk of repeating their
crimes.
The
defendant, only known by his surname Pyo, was
charged
with having sex
with five teenagers whom he met through a
smartphone chat
service six times between November 2011 and
May 2012,
South
Korea
Pyo then threatened to
circulate online video footage of
them engaged in sexual acts and nude
photos of the minors, and
also raped them by threatening them
with deadly weapons.
"(Pyo) committed the
crimes against multiple victims for
a long period of time. (The court)
deems that he has a
distorted sexual awareness and
excessive sexual desire, which
makes it impossible for him to
control sexual impulses by
himself," Judge Kim Ki-young of the
Seoul Southern District
Court said in his
ruling.
The court also ordered
Pyo's information be made
available to the public for 10 years
and that he wear an
electronic monitoring anklet for 20
years after his release
from prison. Pyo was also ordered to
undergo 200 hours of
therapy to treat his sexual
impulses, the court said.
type of treatment, although
Germany , Denmark , Sweden , Poland
and the US state of California
report
said.
The country's Justice
Ministry, meanwhile, said Pyo would
be administered the first medication
designed to reduce sex
drive, compulsive sexual fantasies
and capacity for sexual
arousal two months ahead of his
release from the prison.
The Seoul court's verdict came at time when India
debating whether to introduce
punishment like chemical
castration to check crimes against
women in the wake of the
horrific gang-rape of a 23-year-old
girl in Delhi
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