Robyn McSweeney: sex offenders 'should have penis removed'

A West Australian Liberal backbencher has stood by her comment in parliament that serial sex offenders should "have their penis removed with a blunt instrument".

There has been public uproar since a man known only as TJD was freed from prison last week by a Supreme Court judge under a strict 10-year supervision order. Commissioner Kevin Sleight's decision ended an indefinite detention order handed to TJD in 2011 following vicious assaults on more than a dozen women over 23 years and his psychological assessment as a sexual sadist with psychopathic tendencies.

On Friday, Liberal backbencher Robyn McSweeney stood by her comment made in parliament this week that chemical castration did not always work for sex offenders and "people like this should have their penis removed with a blunt instrument". "Obviously, I am a legislator and that is not going to happen, but when we see the damage that this man inflicts on women and children, there is no place for people like this to walk amongst us in society," she told parliament.

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