GERMANY
Times of India
Divya Chandrababu | TNN | Updated: Mar 14, 2017
Paedophilia is a diagnosis and not a crime, says Dr Klaus Beier, who leads a programme in Germany to treat paedophilically inclined adults and juveniles.
In an interview to TOI, Beier says to protect children, a healthy society must accept that “paedophilia is a reality amongst us and we need to work towards prevention.”
With India’s legislation mandating reporting which overrides patient confidentiality, he says those found offending must be given stringent punishment but we must simultaneously focus on preventing this crime by investing in assessing and treating juvenile offenders and reaching out to adults before they act out on their sexual urges towards children.
Beier, director of Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, Berlin, was touring cities in India to train professionals and the institute is planning to roll out an online programme in India for self-referred paedophilically inclined men. He was in Chennai earlier to deliver a lecture on preventing child sex abuse and use of child sex abuse images.
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