Indonesia to Chemically Castrate Child-Sex Offenders

May 26, 2016, 11:59 AM
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Indonesian judges can now force men who commit sexual offenses against children to be chemically castrated, after President Joko Widodo issued an emergency decree in response to what he called a "crisis" of sexual violence against children in the country.

The move comes after a teenage girl was gang-raped and murdered by a group of 14 men and boys while walking home from school in Bengkulu province, in Sumatra, in early May.