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A possible initiative of amendments to laws, which are aimed at struggle against pedophilia, is being discussed in the Russian Public Chamber, REGNUM reported.
As Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer and a member of the Public Chamber, reported, it is planned to introduce several bills which impose chemical castration for pedophiles as punishment for crimes they have committed. This measure consists in an injection of a criminal, which block consists of a course of periodic injections to completely curtail the offender's sex drive.
In 2007, over 2,500 children were killed in Russia, many by previously convicted child abusers. This measure is applied in practice in France, Israel, and Great Britain. In California chemical castration is compulsory for child abusers since 1996.
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