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<\/p>\nA CONVICTED paedophile chemically castrated is begging for his injections to stop saying "I'm sorry".<\/p>\n
Kazakhstan has pioneered tough new laws against all men found guilty of child sex offences.<\/p>\n
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The chemical castration is carried out by regular injections and will continue after their jail sentences end.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
One paedophile said on TV: \u201cI know it\u2019s harmful to my body. I know it will affect my health in future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another said: \u201cNow I am sorry I committed such a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
One convict pleaded: "By my example, I want to show men they should not commit such terrible offences.<\/p>\n
\u201cI beg those who prescribed me chemical castration – cancel your decision. I am still very young.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
He said: "Everything is really bad in terms of my man's health.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Because it can reduce libido, some countries chemically castrate people who are incarcerated for sexual violence.<\/p>\n
A handful of states in the USA have legalised chemical castration for people who are jailed for sex offences and it\u2019s usually used as a condition of parole.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It's not a one-time treatment, doctors administer the drugs by injection or implants them under your skin.<\/p>\n
Depending on the drug and the dose, this must be repeated as often as once a month.<\/p>\n
The effects last as long as have the medication. Once you stop, they\u2019re generally reversible and your androgen production should go back to normal.<\/p>\n
But there are side effects such as hot flushes and fatigue.<\/p>\n
And long term side effects can include osteoporosis, impaired glucose, depression, infertility, anaemia, loss of muscle mass and weight gain.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another convicted paedo, aged 50, found guilty of raping a schoolgirl, 14, said: \u201cThey have sentenced me to 17 years. I was brought here in February this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have children back home, some of them are minors. Now they say I will face castration.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
After the first castrations in Kazakhstan, one man said he was left \u201caching so badly\u201d.<\/p>\n
A child rapist said: \u201cIt is incredibly difficult, I wouldn\u2019t wish it on my worst enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n
He called for a ban on the \u201cbarbaric\u201d procedure.<\/p>\n
Those tasked with castrating paedophiles in one jail claim the West should also follow the ex-Soviet state's example.<\/p>\n
Zoya Manaenko, 69, insists it is right that child sex attackers should face this ultimate punishment.<\/p>\n
She said: "These people need to be stopped somehow.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey commit terrible crimes against children. So it is right that the law allows this.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kazakhstan\u2019s no-tolerance policy includes publishing pictures, names and addresses of all child sex attackers after their release from jail.<\/p>\n
But the castration laws only apply to those convicted after the laws came into effect.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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