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标 题: 邪恶的基督教‘castrated boys as gay cures and punishments’
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Mar 20 23:01:18 2012, 美东)
A newspaper in the Netherlands claims to have uncovered cases in which boys
in Roman Catholic care over half a century ago were castrated to stop them
being gay or to punish them for uncovering abuse.
NRC Handelsblad is reporting that more than ten teenage boys and young men
were surgically castrated to try to rid them of homosexuality and that
Catholic carers castrated boys who blew the whistle on abuse.
Wim Deetman’s inquiry into sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in the
Netherlands was reportedly sent evidence of the castrations but the
allegations were not followed up in the final report.
The paper says in 1956 20-year-old Henk Heithuis was castrated after he
reported priests to the police following abuse at the Catholic care home in
which he was living.
The NRC reporter said Mr Heithuis was admitted to a Catholic psychiatric
unit after two priests were convicted of abusing him, and according to
records was castrated at a hospital in the southern town of Veghel at his
own request.
No record of his consent was found and at 20, he would have been below the
country’s age of majority in the 1950s. Mr Heithuis died two years later in
a car accident.
The reporter was told castrations were used as punishment for those who
reported abuse and as a general cure for homosexuality.
The Commission said no findings on the castration of abused boys were
published in the report, which acknowledged widespread abuse in the Church,
because they had found “too few leads for further investigation”.
While it said the risk of minors being subject to sexual advances was twice
as great in institutions as the national average of 9.7 percent, the report
found there was no significant difference between Roman Catholic
institutions and other institutions for children.
It also said that while tens of thousands of minors were subjected to “
inappropriate sexual behaviour” ranging from “mild” to “very serious”
in the Roman Catholic Church between 1945 and 2010, the figure “differs
little from the incidence of abuse among non-Catholics”.
The report found that between 0.3 and 0.9 percent of the Dutch population
over 40 had experienced a sexual advance by a person within the Catholic
Church when they were a minor.
While the 1,100-page document uncovered regular abuse of children, it said
that the media had presented a “distorted” view of abuse within the Church
when such abuse was actually widespread in the country, saying that
analysis of the reports submitted to it led to an impression based “mainly
on the experiences of persons who were willing to tell their stories to
journalists”.
A parliamentary investigation into the castration claims is expected to be
called for by ministers today.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/20/the-netherlands-catholic-c | w****h
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