Moldova Castration Law: Nicolae Timofti, Moldovan President, Refuses To Sign Pedophile Castration Law

Moldova's newly elected president Nicolae Timofti speaks to supporters outside the Republican Palace in Chisinau, Moldova, Friday March 16, 2012. (AP Photo/John McConnico)

CHISINAU, Moldova -- Moldova's president has refused to sign a law that would have meant that foreigners convicted of sexually abusing children in Moldova were chemically castrated.

President Nicolae Timofti on Tuesday called the legislation "torture," saying it violated human rights, and sent it back to Parliament.

Parliament approved the law on March 6 after lawmakers said the impoverished nation was attracting pedophiles from the West. The law was criticized by the Council of Europe and Amnesty International.

Parliament will now have to modify the legislation.

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Comments

[jumby1and2]

04:55 PM on 04/24/2012

Why could you possibly not approve my comments?

[LMPE]

02:24 PM on 04/24/2012

Don't castrate pedophiles. Just put them in jail.

[Libertarian5]

10:17 PM on 07/23/2012

Too expensive. Castration on prime TV, then let them have productive work lives again.

[Reg Corleonis]

01:27 PM on 04/24/2012

What about the torture of poverty-stricken, exploited, trafficked children? Don't they have rights?

[Liban CZ]

12:35 PM on 04/24/2012

Indira Ghandhi had a different method, two bricks.

[AIIegroTroppo]

10:38 AM on 04/24/2012

Um... have they ever heard of deportation?

[kardonb]

04:02 PM on 04/24/2012

oh yea , just shuffle them off to " somewhere else" , so they can keep pedophiling there . Very humane . Castration in this case is the humane thing to do , to prevent further harm to innocent children . So it hurts ? Good , he hurt his victims for life .

[2 Da Max]

01:42 PM on 04/24/2012

Thank You!

[jumby1and2]

04:44 PM on 04/24/2012

Oh please, hate men much? I'm a man, and fully endorse castration for child rape, as do EVERY ONE of my friends. How you can generalize about such a sick subject suggests you hate all men, without question. Terrible comment, as are the two who "faved" such a despicable comment.

[paddlerchick]

09:52 AM on 04/24/2012

Maybe extreme but I'd bet it would cut down on pedophile vacations to the country.

[kathy smelser]

09:06 AM on 04/24/2012

so it is not considered torture to sexually abuse a child ..but it is torture to castrate the abuser ....this is disturbing on more than one level

[grant06]

09:36 AM on 04/24/2012

No, what's disturbing is that ANYONE would support such horror. Makes them no better than the people they want to punish. Enough people have been wrongly convicted of crimes (especially tourists who are not familiar with the laws of the countries they visit) that maiming a person is way over the top. Such insnae punishments cannot be undone.

[SusanElizabeth1949]

10:03 AM on 04/24/2012

This was chemical not surgical castration, the minute they no longer get the shots they start being able to 'perform again'. And frankly I'd do the same thing, only surgically on a 2nd conviction for sex with a child.

[Thomas Stieglitz]

09:54 AM on 04/24/2012

Kudos for this comment.