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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - As of Thursday, August 1, for the first time in the country’s history, child rapists can now be ordered by a judge to have their testicles removed if the victim is under the age of 13 and if the offender is older than 17 years old. The law already allowed judges to issue an order of chemical castration.
“At the end of the day I hope that kids know that they can feel safer because there will be some real tough penalty actions that will occur when somebody violates their innocence,” said the bill’s author Sen. Regina Barrow (D-Baton Rouge).
The law also includes the crime of pornography involving juveniles as an underlying offense and it’s also not just limited to male offenders.
“Unfortunately, females are molesting children as well and that’s a very sad thing to see and to hear. As a matter of fact, one of the cases I was reading not too long ago, I read a case where that was actually happening with guards with children at a particular facility,” Sen. Barrow explained.
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“At the end of the day I hope that kids know that they can feel safer because there will be some real tough penalty actions that will occur when somebody violates their innocence,” said the bill’s author Sen. Regina Barrow (D-Baton Rouge).
The law also includes the crime of pornography involving juveniles as an underlying offense and it’s also not just limited to male offenders.
“Unfortunately, females are molesting children as well and that’s a very sad thing to see and to hear. As a matter of fact, one of the cases I was reading not too long ago, I read a case where that was actually happening with guards with children at a particular facility,” Sen. Barrow explained.
La. becomes the first to legalize surgical castration for child rapists
As of Thursday, August 1, for the first time in the country’s history, child rapists can now be ordered by a judge to have their testicles removed if the victim is under the age of 13 and if the offender is older than 17 years old.
