“It was nothing unusual,” Marnix Koolhaas, a Dutch historian, told
the Volkskrant newspaper.
One man has been identified as Henk Heithuis who was castrated in 1956, while
a minor, after reporting priests to the police for abusing him in a Catholic
boarding home.
He had accused Catholic priests of sexually abusing him in his Church run care
home. Two clergymen were convicted of abuse but Mr Heithuis was nonetheless
transferred by police to a Catholic psychiatric hospital were he was
castrated.
Evidence of the castration policy has emerged amid controversy that it was not
included in the findings of an official investigation into sexual abuse
within the church last year.
Khadija Arib, a Dutch Labour MP, who called for the new investigation, said: “We
must find out how many cases there were.”
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