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Madagascar's Landmark Verdict: Surgical Castration Imposed for Child Rape
A court in Madagascar has enforced a ground-breaking sentence of surgical castration alongside life imprisonment for a man convicted of raping a child. The move marks the nation's first implementation of such a measure, established under a 2024 law targeting crimes against minors.
A court in Madagascar has sentenced a man to surgical castration for the first time after raping a six-year-old girl. He was also sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor. This is the first time the new law has been applied, Reuters reports.
A court sentences a man to be castrated
The News God A court sentences a man to be castrated A man has been sentenced to surgical castration for the rape of a child in 2024 in Madagascar, according to a judicial official. The sentence marks the first of its kind in the Indian Ocean island. On Thursday, July 10, 2025, the attorney general at the Court of Appeal, Didier Razafindralamb, said the case arose from the rape and attempted murder of a six-year-old girl in Imerintsiatosika, a m…
Madagascar Court Orders Surgical Castration for Child Rapist in Landmark Ruling
In a historic first for Madagascar, a court has sentenced a convicted child rapist to surgical castration alongside a life sentence of hard labor. The ruling marks the first application of a harsh new 2024 law targeting perpetrators of sexual violence against children under 10. The case involved a six-year-old girl who was raped and nearly killed in Imerintsiatosika, a town 30 kilometers west of the capital, Antananarivo. Didier Razafindralambo,…
Antananarivo, 11 July, 8:45 a.m. – Surgical castration for a rapist. The ordinary criminal court of Antananarivo sentenced Thursday to the maximum penalty provided for by the Malagasy Penal Code the man charged with the rape of a six-year-old girl on 3 March 2024. The guilty person was also sentenced for attempted murder, according to the Attorney General of the Court of Appeal of Antananarivo Didier Alban Razafindralambo, the judge handed down …
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