THE EDITOR, Sir:

The recent proposal from a Health Ministry official to control young males who show early signs of becoming sexual monsters, has been met with caustic backbiting from those who claim to be defenders of human rights. In all the chat chat that these human rights pretenders have being carrying on, they are yet to present one reasoning that can be protective to the potential victims and offenders.

It is well known that a number of men who are in settled relationships, including marriage, have engaged in sexual activities with animals, boys and the violating of little girls. Not long ago the Commissioner of Corrections presented frightening statistics where men going into the penal institutions are those who repeat the heinous and debilitating crime of rape.

The state is obligated to protect the vulnerable by any means necessary - from those who seek to prey on them: and if someone shows himself unable to control his sexual impulses, and if when he reaches adulthood, engages in bastardly sexual acts - then, he must be protected from himself and more importantly, the victims and potential victims. YES to chemical castration

I am, etc.,

GARFIELD ANGUS

luthergus@yahoo.com