http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fe ... hiles.html

SELF-CONFESSED violent paedophile Rafael Josef's leg twitches as he recalls his crimes.

Boss-eyed and with tattooed knuckles, divorced Josef, 41, admits he raped a "terrified" nine-year-old girl in her own home.

After being released from prison, he bludgeoned and forced himself on an older woman who later died.

Yet soon the builder's labourer could walk free from his secure psychiatric unit and his doctor is convinced he will not re-offend.

Josef - like dozens of the Czech Republic's most dangerous sex offenders - has been castrated.

Last November he had part of his testicles removed at his own request to stop paedophilic urges. And if the state attorney follows the advice of medical experts, he can expect to be released after spending the past 13 years behind bars.

Speaking via a translator from his secure unit in the Czech Republic, Josef said: "I wish I had been castrated years ago and would advise other repeat violent sex offenders to have the operation.

"It was painful but afterwards I felt calmer, more balanced. I was able to think more about my life and how sorry I am for my crimes.

"Now I would trust myself to live near a school."

The Sun spent four hours with some of Europe's worst sex offenders at Havlickuv Brod psychiatric clinic, 100km south east of Prague.

Sitting on mustachioed Josef's right and sporting a chilling smile is forestry worker Pavel Toman, 33

He attempted to rape a 35-year-old women before killing her with a crowbar in a horrific attack.

Also present is rapist and paedophile Karel Havlovec, 55, who admits he used to "dream of raping children every night". Next to him, staring manically into the distance, is Ludek Jirak, 25, another self-confessed paedophile.

He molested two children, one a 12-year-old boy he was baby-sitting.

Jirak admitted: "He was crying but I couldn't stop myself."

All chose surgical castration to free themselves from the demons that drove them to rape or kill.

Sitting with a cuddly toy cow on his bed, Jirak revealed: "I had constant dreams about abusing little boys and girls. I asked to be castrated in March this year and the dreams stopped. Now I regret my crimes and I advise paedophiles in Britain to get this operation done.

"It will change their lives for the better."

Toman - locked up since 1993 - was last night deemed fit for release by experts and the others hope to follow.

The Czech Republic is the only country in Europe to surgically castrate sex offenders. Dr Zelmira Herrova, 58, has overseen around 40 operations.

She said: "I think castration for these most dangerous offenders is a necessity. Surgical castration is only carried out on dangerous deviants who have to request it themselves.

"They find castration a relief. The rate of re-offending among my patients is zero."

In the past decade the Czech government says 94 surgical castrations have taken place.

The 30-minute operation, which can be done under local anaesthetic, removes the part of the testicles which produce testosterone.

A further 300 Czech men have undergone chemical castration - the injection of drugs that suppress the production of male hormones - since 2000.

But this is a non-permanent treatment which requires repeat injections.

The Czech doctors are proud of their work, which they believe would cut sex crime re-offences elsewhere.

But Europe's leading human rights body, the Council Of Europe, has described it as "degrading".

Their recent report added: "Surgical castration is a mutilating, irreversible intervention and cannot be considered as a medical necessity in the treatment of sex offenders."

Czech father Hynek Blasko, whose nine-year-old son was raped and murdered by repeat sex offender Antonin Novak, 43, is furious human rights groups are putting the rights of criminals ahead of victims.

He said: "My son is in heaven and never coming back.

"No one wants to challenge the rights of the paedophiles, but what about the rights of a nine-year-old boy with his life ahead of him?"

Last night the Department of Health said surgical castration is not being considered for offenders in the UK. But a voluntary chemical castration programme is under way.

Don't miss tomorrow's SunTalk to hear Gaunty talking to Oliver Harvey about the castration of sex attackers.

Maybe it was a translation issue but

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SplitDik (imported) wrote: Sat May 30, 2009 7:52 am Last November he had part of his testicles removed at his own request

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Which PART of his testicles?? Seems odd, but I'm guessing it was a translation thing.

Batman

I dont think it is a translation thing as later on it mentions that the part of the testicle that produces testosterone is removed. I did not think that this was a specific part of the testicle or maybe the article is just not wanting to go into the detail as in `the bulbous bit on the end of the spermatic cord` ie all of it. Maybe someone can throw more light on this?

Most probably a subcaspular orchiectomy was performed:

Subcapsular orchiectomy

A subcapsular orchiectomy is also performed for treatment of prostate cancer. The operation is similar to a simple orchiectomy, with the exception that the glandular tissue is removed from the lining of each testicle rather than the entire gland being removed. This type of orchiectomy is done primarily to keep the appearance of a normal scrotum. (http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/La-P ... ctomy.html)

Also: http://www.flinturology.com/subcap_orchi.shtml

Greeting,

Vesal Mas.

Cool, all the years I've been on here I never knew about partial...I thought they just always popped the little suckers out and that was it.

Learning something new! Always a good thing

Batman

Maybe this is due to the sexual conotation castration is about, on this site.

Many then think about animal castration methods performed on human males.

However this subcapsular orchiectomy is the same castration.

It only takes some more dissection.

I think this form of castration was popular for treating prostate cancer before the very good anti-androgene drugs were on the market. That way the surgeon could tell his patient he would not castrate him (like we castrate animals) but only take away the "bad" part of the testicle. This made the patient less un-male after the operation. He still had his scrotal form. But in fact he was as castrated as if he was castrated with a Henderson tool (http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=4539029986&)

Take care !

Vesal Mas.

"He still had his scrotal form." And just how does this affect being kicked in the nuts?

Does this surgery retain sensitivity? It would seem that testicle sensations, and emotional attachment to testes, still have some influence over sexual desire.

Why not just "kill" the testes with vodka injections than go to such complicated surgical procedures.

In this type of surgery, do the testes still produce sperm? Could surgical extraction of the sperm enable him to be a father? (not that he would do it, or that it would be allowed, or that any woman would want to be impregnated with sperm from a child molester....it's just a curiosity question).

Dear Nullorchis,

I do not know whether these testicle-remnants are still painful, but I would reckon yes.

For your other questions: No active testicular tissue is present: so no hormons, no sperm, not fatherhood but absolute sterility.

Answers to your questions ?

Vesal.

vesal_mas (imported) wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:50 pm Dear Nullorchis,

I do not know whether these testicle-remnants are still painful, but I would reckon yes.

For your other questions: No active testicular tissue is present: so no hormons, no sperm, not fatherhood but absolute sterility.

Answers to your questions ?

Vesal.

There has been one or two folks done with sub-capsular orchiectomy here. As I recall, perhaps SAG111 would comment.... if my feeble memory serves me.

It seems to me that for this program to work effectively that potential offenders should be able to seek voluntary castration as a treatment for paedohilia and other uncontrollable urges before an offence occurs. If such a program was readily available I think a good number of potential offenders would take this option if it was publicised and made readily available without stigma on an anonymous basis.

However I note that this approach is not 100%. There was a report some time ago a case in Germany of a man who had agreed to castration after a series of rapes and was thereafter released as being no longer a danger to the public.

He later started taking testerone supplements and then assaulted and killed a young girl. The girl's mother attended court and in the middle of the proceedings pulled out a gun and shot him dead as he was testifying in the dock. As I understood she was never prosecuted :)- presumably considered a justifiable homicide or temporary insanity.

P.S. I have talked to more than one person on EA (and elsewhere) whose reason for seeking castration was to reduce uncontrollable desires. I realise that chemical castration is an option but castration seems to me to be the more effective option.