In one Nigerian state, if you are convicted of rape you will face castration. The state of Kaduna in Nigeria recently passed the law to punish child rapists by castration or death.
Male rapists in Kaduna state can be subject to surgical castration, while a woman convicted of raping a child faces the removal of her fallopian tubes.
According to The New York Times, men can also now be handed the death penalty for raping a person under the age of 14 and a life sentence for raping of an adult.
These drastic penalties are required to help further protect children from a serious crime said Governer Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai.
The governor said this after signing the legislation on Wednesday after it gained parliament approval.
Between January and May, over 800 cases of s.e.xual violence were reported, which has been labelled as a major surge.
The tough new punishment comes as a bid to curb s.e.xual violence, which has spiked strongly during the Coronavirus lockdown.
-Daily Sun
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