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On October 14, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree allowing life sentences for sexual assault against children under 14 even on a first offense. Previously, first-time offenders faced 15 to 25 years in prison, with life sentences reserved for repeat offenders. The move follows a case in September in which a kindergarten employee in the eastern Namangan region allegedly sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl, sparking public outrage and calls — including from the president’s own daughter — to bring back the death penalty. On 5ch, posters debated the severity of the punishment: some backed the crackdown, others compared it to Japan’s lenient sex-crime laws and sentencing, and still others worried that harsher penalties could make offenders more violent.
[AFP-Jiji] Shavkat Mirziyoyev, president of Uzbekistan in Central Asia, signed a decree on the 14th making it possible to impose a life sentence on anyone who rapes a child under 14, even for a first offense.
In September, an employee at a kindergarten in the eastern Namangan region was arrested on suspicion of raping a 5-year-old girl, sparking widespread public anger. This toughening of penalties comes in response to that surge in public opinion.
Following the incident, Mirziyoyev’s daughter, Saida Mirziyoyeva, among others, had called for the reinstatement of the death penalty.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's because Japan is absurdly lenient when the perpetrator is a family member.
"Legal from age 14," apparently.
Speaking of Japan, they really should rename these age-based statutes.
Former "rape" → "forcible sexual intercourse" → "non-consensual sexual intercourse"
Under 13: applies automatically
Under 16: applies if there's a 5+ year age gap
Under 18: handled case-by-case under local ordinances
Even above those ages, if the sex was technically "consensual," it can still fall under the "non-consensual sexual intercourse" charge — but that makes it indistinguishable from actual rape, so even news reports end up confusing.
They should use separate names entirely — something like "sex with someone lacking capacity to consent (under 13)" or "legally non-consensual intercourse (under 16)" — instead of lumping it all together.
So you're saying a country that can't even protect minors' lives and bodies counts as "normal"? It's a strange kind of logic to lump stricter enforcement of the harm principle in with dictatorships. I don't have that much faith in human freedom to begin with.
Yeah, that's a real risk — guys going "I'm getting executed either way" and turning even more violent out of spite.
That logic doesn't hold up. By that reasoning, every crime carrying a maximum penalty would have the same problem, which would make punishment meaningless altogether.
It's not legal. For a first offense it's 15 to 25 years in prison. Life sentences only apply to repeat offenders. This decree is about making life sentences possible from the first offense.
Actually, in Latin America that's exactly why rapists end up killed on the spot.
In Mexico and Brazil there's vigilante justice too. Is that what you want for Japan? Snatch the guy, put him on a deep-sea fishing boat, and he'll vanish without a trace. Honestly, I think it'd be better if the state just legally dealt with them itself.
Are you stupid? That's taxpayer money. The death penalty is the cheapest option.
Starving them to death costs even less, and it spares the executioner any guilt or stress.
Just knowing Megumi Ogata (voice actress) is off the new series makes it easier to watch without worrying.
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What's a life sentence actually like in Uzbekistan, I wonder? Do they even have prison labor? Or is it like an American-style life sentence — just given food, banned from reading, singing, talking, and exercising, and simply locked up until they die?
https://youtube.com/shorts/xA1xRwYZO0U?si=Hz0H1fZE6_0cgBiW
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Before this decree, Uzbekistan’s law capped first-offense sentences for sexual assault against children under 14 at 15 to 25 years in prison, with life sentences reserved for repeat offenders. The core of this reform is making life sentences possible even for a first offense — a change driven by the public outrage over the kindergarten incident that sparked it. Some thread replies misread this as “rape being legal from age 14,” but that’s a misunderstanding of the sentencing brackets — sexual assault against anyone 14 or older is, of course, still punishable. The discussion also touched on Japan’s own history of renaming its sex-crime statutes (from “rape” to “forcible sexual intercourse” to “non-consensual sexual intercourse”) and shifting the applicable ages (13/16/18), with posters debating how to balance tougher penalties against the risk that harsher sentences could make offenders more violent.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Express+) thread “Uzbekistan toughens penalties for raping children under 14, making life sentences possible even for first offenses.”
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