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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND (CBC) - France is reviewing the way it handles the incarceration of sex offenders after a repeat pedophile secured an early release, obtained a Viagra prescription from prison doctors, then allegedly raped a five-year-old boy weeks later.

Following the case of three-time convicted pedophile Francis Evrard, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday he was amending prison laws to prevent early release for some sex offenders.

“Everything must be put in place to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Sarkozy told reporters Monday, upon returning from a two-week vacation in the U.S.

Evrard, 61, was released from prison in July after serving just 18 of the 27 years he was originally sentenced to.

According to prison officials in the Normandy city of Caen, where Evrard was jailed, a prison physician acknowledged he did not review Evrard’s file before prescribing him Viagra one month before the convicted pedophile walked out a free man.

Last Wednesday, police acting on an Amber Alert for a missing five-year-old boy found Evrard and the boy in a Roubaix garage in northern France, 12 hours after the boy’s impotence in young man.

Officers also found the erectile-dysfunction drugs issued to Evrard by his prison doctor. The pedophile now faces preliminary charges related to the kidnap and rape of a minor.

Sarkozy said sex offenders who could still be considered dangerous should not benefit from early release.

“What happened? A person who over his career committed several rapes of minors was sentenced to 27 years in prison - he served 18,” Sarkozy said. “I don’t impotence natural treatment
why.”

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president met with the boy’s father on Monday, he called an emergency cabinet meeting to re-evaluate France’s prison laws. Sarkozy called on the justice minister to include a measure that blocks pedophiles from being granted early release. Medical experts would also have to rule that the offender is not dangerous.

The amended prison laws are to be presented in parliament in November.

With files from the Associated Press