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Underage
sexual abuse victims were castrated in Dutch Roman Catholic psychiatric wards
in the 1950s, according to the Rotterdam-based newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
Castration
was performed on young men who were thought to be homosexual, but also as a
means of punishing those who blew the whistle on abusers, the paper quotes
sources as saying.
NRC
discovered proof of the forced castration of one young man and strong evidence
that at least ten other abuse victims were subjected to the removal of their
testicles. The proof includes court documents, medical records, letters from
lawyers and private correspondence.
According
to the paper, the practice was reported in 2010 to the Deetman Commission which
completed its investigation of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church last
December. The commission, led by former cabinet minister Wim Deetman of the
Christian Democratic party (CDA), made no mention of the castration of abuse
victims in its final report.
NRC also
writes that a prominent Dutch politician tried to secure a royal pardon for
Catholic brothers convicted of sexual abuse at Harreveld, a former boarding
school in the Netherlands. The politician was Vic Marijnen, who later became
Dutch prime minister.
Marijnen
was chairman of the Harreveld board of governors at the time when the abuses
took place. He was also vice-chairman of the Netherlands' main Catholic child
protection agency and leader of the Catholic People's Party (KVP), which later
merged with Protestant groups to create the Christian Democrats.
In a
reaction, the church-installed Deetman Commission says it did not publish any
findings on the castration of abused minors in its final report because it had
"too few leads for further investigation." The commission did not
report on the actions of Vic Marijnen because "the case was unmistakeably
tied to circumstances which could be traced back to an individual person."
In its final report, the commission left most identities anonymous as a means
of protecting individuals' privacy.
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“.. For centuries you haven't been able to think past that box of what God must be like. So you create a Human-like God with wars in heaven, angel strife, things that would explain the devil, fallen angels, pearly gates, lists of dos and don'ts, and many rules still based on cultures that are centuries old. You create golden streets and even sexual pleasures as rewards for men (of course) - all Human perspective, pasted upon God. I want to tell you that it's a lot different than that. I want to remind you that there are those who have seen it! Why don't you ask somebody who has had what you would call a near-death experience?
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