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Article: Murder sparks demands for 'chemical castration'
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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France calls for hormone treatment for sexual criminals
France is considering the compulsory "chemical castration" of
sexual criminals after a woman jogger was murdered in a forest south
of Paris by a convicted rapist.
The "voluntary" use of drugs to destroy or limit the libido is
already available to male sex offenders in France. The Prime
Minister, Franois Fillon, has now announced that he will consider
ways of making the law "more obligatory".
An anguished debate about chemical castration has been raging
since the murder of Marie-Christine Hodeau, 42, who was kidnapped
while jogging near the forest of Fontainebleau, 30 miles south of
Paris, last week. After she was bundled into a car ...