French Rapist Plead For
Castration
A French man charged with raping a boy, after being imprisoned
for two other child rape cases, has written to President Nicolas
Sarkozy asking to be castrated.
Francis Evrard had demanded in the letter that his testicles
should be surgically removed.
Evrard is accused of kidnapping and raping the boy in 2007 after
serving an eighteen year jail sentence for the rape of two other
boys.
The boy's father, Mustafa Kocacurt, judged the request a stunt,
aimed at receiving a more lenient sentence.
Castration Rules
France is considering forcing some sex offenders to undergo
chemical castration but the physical castration, which the man
is asking for, is banned.
The public debate over forced chemical castration was revived
earlier this month by the rape and murder of a woman by a
suspected re-offender.
France, along with a number of other European countries,
including Sweden and Denmark, already allow the use of drugs to
lower the sex drive of offenders who agree to it.
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