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Castration is 'get-out-of-jail' card
CHEMICAL castration will be a get-out-of-jail-free card for pedophiles, Queensland Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg says.
Mr Springborg today told reporters the state government's plan to introduce voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders was flawed.
His comments follow a report from The Courier-Mail in Brisbane that a man dubbed Australia's worst pedophile could be one of the first to apply for chemical castration to help modify his behaviour and sentence outcome.
Former Brisbane Sunday school teacher Geoffrey Robert Dobbs was jailed indefinitely in 2003 for molesting 62 young girls over a 30-year period.
"It concerns me that we now have some of the state's most notorious pedophiles salivating at the prospect of getting an early release by voluntary temporary chemical castration. Frankly, I don't think anything could ensure people don't repeat their behaviour," Mr Springborg said.
"The safest thing for children is to ensure these pedophiles are locked up in jail (indefinitely) ... They don't need and shouldn't be given a get-out-of-jail-free card.
"Everyone should remember that this is only temporary chemical castration. It's absolutely reversible and reversible quite quickly. This is a knee-jerk response from this Government."
Corrective Services Minister Judy Spence said chemical castration would be available only to offenders who had already served their full sentence.
"It's estimated chemical castration would only have potential benefit for less than 10 per cent of serious sex offenders," Ms Spence said. "State Cabinet has endorsed chemical castration if it's recommended by a psychiatrist as part of an overall treatment program and if the offender volunteers."
Ms Spence said that if the Government believed an offender was dangerous, it would ask the Supreme Court to keep them in jail at the end of their sentence regardless of whether they volunteered for chemical castration.
She said if a judge released a sex offender on a supervision order, he or she may decide to make chemical castration one of their conditions.
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Am I the only person who thinks this idea is the wrong idea?
Am I the only one who thinks that this is a bad move?
Castration is 'get-out-of-jail' card
CHEMICAL castration will be a get-out-of-jail-free card for pedophiles, Queensland Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg says.
Mr Springborg today told reporters the state government's plan to introduce voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders was flawed.
His comments follow a report from The Courier-Mail in Brisbane that a man dubbed Australia's worst pedophile could be one of the first to apply for chemical castration to help modify his behaviour and sentence outcome.
Former Brisbane Sunday school teacher Geoffrey Robert Dobbs was jailed indefinitely in 2003 for molesting 62 young girls over a 30-year period.
"It concerns me that we now have some of the state's most notorious pedophiles salivating at the prospect of getting an early release by voluntary temporary chemical castration. Frankly, I don't think anything could ensure people don't repeat their behaviour," Mr Springborg said.
"The safest thing for children is to ensure these pedophiles are locked up in jail (indefinitely) ... They don't need and shouldn't be given a get-out-of-jail-free card.
"Everyone should remember that this is only temporary chemical castration. It's absolutely reversible and reversible quite quickly. This is a knee-jerk response from this Government."
Corrective Services Minister Judy Spence said chemical castration would be available only to offenders who had already served their full sentence.
"It's estimated chemical castration would only have potential benefit for less than 10 per cent of serious sex offenders," Ms Spence said. "State Cabinet has endorsed chemical castration if it's recommended by a psychiatrist as part of an overall treatment program and if the offender volunteers."
Ms Spence said that if the Government believed an offender was dangerous, it would ask the Supreme Court to keep them in jail at the end of their sentence regardless of whether they volunteered for chemical castration.
She said if a judge released a sex offender on a supervision order, he or she may decide to make chemical castration one of their conditions.
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Am I the only person who thinks this idea is the wrong idea?
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