A CONVICTED paedophile chemically castrated is begging for his injections to stop saying "I'm sorry".
Kazakhstan has pioneered tough new laws against all men found guilty of child sex offences.
The chemical castration is carried out by regular injections and will continue after their jail sentences end.
They have been interviewed on TV telling about their ordeal as part of a media campaign by the authorities to warn would-be male sex attackers.
One paedophile said on TV: “I know it’s harmful to my body. I know it will affect my health in future.”
Another said: “Now I am sorry I committed such a crime.”
One convict pleaded: "By my example, I want to show men they should not commit such terrible offences.
“I beg those who prescribed me chemical castration – cancel your decision. I am still very young.”
A prisoner named Marat, who is serving a 15-year prison sentence for the attempted rape of a child, told how he had had three castration injections so far and it has stopped him from getting erections.
He said: "Everything is really bad in terms of my man's health.
What is chemical castration?
While chemical castration isn’t as bad as it sounds, and isn’t a permanent treatment (or punishment), it can have some bad side effects.
Because it can reduce libido, some countries chemically castrate people who are incarcerated for sexual violence.
A handful of states in the USA have legalised chemical castration for people who are jailed for sex offences and it’s usually used as a condition of parole.
It involves using drugs to lower the production of male hormone, androgens, leaving men with low or absent sex drive, erectile dysfunction and sometimes shrinking of their testicles and penis.
It's not a one-time treatment, doctors administer the drugs by injection or implants them under your skin.
Depending on the drug and the dose, this must be repeated as often as once a month.
The effects last as long as have the medication. Once you stop, they’re generally reversible and your androgen production should go back to normal.
But there are side effects such as hot flushes and fatigue.
And long term side effects can include osteoporosis, impaired glucose, depression, infertility, anaemia, loss of muscle mass and weight gain.
“I need a sexual life yet nothing works down there. Why castrate me? I admit I'm guilty. But I want to live further. I still have my family and children.”
Another convicted paedo, aged 50, found guilty of raping a schoolgirl, 14, said: “They have sentenced me to 17 years. I was brought here in February this year.
“I have children back home, some of them are minors. Now they say I will face castration.”
The country claims its tough approach has led to a 15 per cent fall in attacks on children, though statistics for paedophile offences have risen, perhaps due to higher reporting levels.
After the first castrations in Kazakhstan, one man said he was left “aching so badly”.
A child rapist said: “It is incredibly difficult, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.”
He called for a ban on the “barbaric” procedure.
Those tasked with castrating paedophiles in one jail claim the West should also follow the ex-Soviet state's example.
Zoya Manaenko, 69, insists it is right that child sex attackers should face this ultimate punishment.
She said: "These people need to be stopped somehow.
“They commit terrible crimes against children. So it is right that the law allows this.”
Kazakhstan’s no-tolerance policy includes publishing pictures, names and addresses of all child sex attackers after their release from jail.
But the castration laws only apply to those convicted after the laws came into effect.
Magzhan Yesimbek, deputy head of one penal colony, said that he had more than 100 paedophiles in his prison but only three had been castrated under the law.
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