NETHERLANDS
Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
By Jill Reilly
PUBLISHED: 07:39 EST, 20 March 2012
Shocking reports have emerged that reveal at least 10 males under the age of 21 were castrated ‘to get rid of homosexuality,’ in the 1950s by the Dutch Roman Catholic Church.
The findings are even more controversial as an official investigation into sexual abuse within the church published last year, did not include the shocking revelation, even though it had been reported.
The NRC Handelsblad, a daily evening newspaper in the Netherlands, newspaper identified a man Henk Heithuis as one of the young men who were castrated as well as nine other minors.
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