The mum of murdered schoolgirl April Jones has backed the government’s bid to chemically castrate paedophiles and rapists.
Coral Jones, whose five-year-old daughter was by sick paedophile Mark Bridger, said he and all other sex offenders should lose their right to a sexual urge.
Bridger was given a whole-life term for abducting and murdering on October 1, 2012, in Machynlleth, mid Wales.
The Judge said he sexually abused the schoolgirl before disposing of her body.
But the paedophile has never confessed to his crime and the location of April’s remains is still unknown.
Here mum Coral gives her view on the government’s latest proposals.
By Coral Jones
When vanished almost 13 years ago my whole world was thrown upside down.
I will never get over the heartache of losing my beautiful girl that day and when I later learned that sick paedophile Mark Bridger had kidnapped and murdered her, I was sick to my stomach.
I cannot begin to describe the hatred I still have for him to this day.
During sentencing trial judge Mr Justice Griffith-Williams told Bridger that there was no doubt in his mind that he was ‘a paedophile, who has, for some time harboured sexual and morbid fantasies about young girls’.
Police also found Bridger’s laptop containing a library of vile sexual images of children.
And for me vile paedophiles like him will never change.
They will always fantasise about young children and harbour sickening sexual thoughts.
The government’s proposal to and rapists like him, is something that has been on my mind for over a decade.
I’ve said from word go that this should happen and I’m surprised it has taken so long.
I would welcome any steps to like Mark Bridger.
To be honest, if I had it my way he should have it chopped off completely, but I can’t see the justice secretary agreeing to that.
Putting a paedophile or rapist’s name on the sex offenders register is – for too long we’ve turned a blind eye to it.
Many sex offenders continue to reoffend, sometimes over and over again.
Bridger won’t ever see the light of day for what he did, but it keeps me awake at night that he still has sexual fantasties about my daughter and other children.
It makes my body shiver, it makes me feel sick.
All prisoners who have sexually abused children should have this sexual urge removed – that goes for men and women.
If they’ve done the deed they should pay the price.
They don’t deserve to enjoy the same sexual urges as everyone else.
The only question is how long does the procedure last? Is it permanent? Can its be reversed. All these things need to be addressed.
In my book sex offenders so they can’t have their own children and continue the cycle of abuse.
There will always be people who are against strong measures like this.
They will cite human rights as the reason not to act – but until they have lost a child or seen a family member sexually abused, they will never truly understand why this is so important.
Ever since April was taken from us I have campaigned for changes in the law.
I have fought to introduce April’s Law which would rid the internet of child abuse images.
Easily accessibly vile online pictures are fuelling paedophiles’ evil crimes and myself and others have demanded search engine firms should do much more to prevent people posting and accessing the shocking content.
I’ll never stop pushing for change and I welcome the latest proposals by the government.
It’s time we all took a stand.
