Entrance to the State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry. V. P. Serbian. Archival photoMOSCOW, Jan 26The law on life imprisonment for pedophiles could turn out to be cruel terms for the innocent in practice, given the «poor quality of the investigation» in the country, famous lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky believes. So he follows some other experts interviewed by RIA Novosti commented on the risks arising from the application of the new law on life imprisonment for certain categories of pedophiles. Other experts, however, fully supported the innovation.»Problems not below the belt»: the HRC appreciated the idea of castrating pedophiles «Innocent people can be imprisoned. Unfortunately, pedophilia is often associated with other especially serious crimes, and for example, under Article 105 («Murder»), the offender in any case can go to life in prison,» Agranovsky told RIA Novosti. the field of crimes against children cause great resonance and emotional response, because of this it may seem that the number of pedophiles in Russia is increasing. However, this is only an illusion, statistically the number of such crimes has remained the same since the days of the Soviet Union, «the source said. In his opinion , the problem of pedophilia could be dealt with much more effectively than new tightening by reforming the psychiatric service power. The Federation Council on Wednesday approved a bill to toughen punishment for pedophiles, now it has gone to the president for signature. The document provides that life imprisonment will apply primarily to repeat pedophiles who abused children under the age of 18 (previously it was to 14). In addition, life sentences will threaten pedophiles who are caught for the first time, but their victims are two or more children or their crime involves the commission of another, grave or especially grave or especially grave.
