Speaker Valentina Matviyenko is calling for an examination into a new law enforcing castration for men convicted of child sex offenses in Russia, similar to neighboring Kazakhstan
Russia’s top female politician has called for consideration of castrating all pedophiles.
Valentina Matviyenko, Speaker of the upper house of Parliament, was speaking after the passing of new laws to jail for life all repeat child sex attackers and also pedophiles who kill.
The close ally of Vladimir Putin told senators that Russia should examine imposing chemical castration routinely for men convicted of child sex offenses, a punishment used in neighboring Kazakhstan.
Her deputy Andrei Turchak intervened and said: “I’d suggest physical [castration].”
Matviyenko, 72, said Russia should further toughen its laws and called for looking at castration as a punishment and “study the experience of other states”.
But the priority was to jail child sex attackers, she said.
Turchak won applause from senators when he said life sentences should be imposed on first-time paedophile offenders.
The new laws which apply to cases when the victims are under 18 follow a spate of cases that have received big publicity in the Russian media.
An attack this month saw “a convicted paedophile and his male lover” snatch a girl, five from a snowy street.
But the priority was to jail child sex attackers, she said.
Turchak won applause from senators when he said life sentences should be imposed on first-time paedophile offenders.
The new laws which apply to cases when the victims are under 18 follow a spate of cases that have received big publicity in the Russian media.
An attack this month saw “a convicted paedophile and his male lover” snatch a girl, five from a snowy street.
Still from surveillance camera footage shows Veronika Nikolayeva, five, being carried away ( Image: Social media/ EAST2WEST NEWS)
The child was subsequently raped and then killed, say reports citing law enforcement.
She had been stabbed multiple times and her body hidden in a duffle bag.
When the suspects were later detained, they needed police protection to stop a lynching by furious locals.
Tragic Veronika Nikolayeva ( Image: EAST2WEST NEWS)
Tributes laid for Veronika ( Image: EAST2WEST NEWS)
The child, Veronika Nikolayeva, had been playing near the cinema and cultural complex where her mother works in Kostroma.
One of the suspects was named Denis Gerasimov, 44, earlier jailed for paedophile offenses including producing child pornography.
He was released from jail in March last year, after serving four-and-a-half years for convictions that included sex with an underage girl.
The other suspect, Vadim Belyakov, 24, reportedly has a conviction for theft.
The case led to politicians vowing to rush new laws through parliament.
