(Radio Iowa) – A bill in the Iowa House to establish surgical castration as a penalty for sex offenders convicted of abusing a child won’t be advancing this year.
Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault lobyist Amy Campbell says 96 percent of children who are assaulted know their attacker. Campbell says the research has shown that the more harsh the penalty, the less likely a family is to report the abuse.
The law would have expanded on a law passed in 2003 in Iowa that allows those convicted of serious sex crimes against children to be sentenced to undergo a type hormonal therapy referred to as chemical castration.
