Former Anglican vicar Geoffrey Baulcomb (79), nicknamed the Eunuch Maker because he castrated men, was sentenced to three years in prison. A man from Eastbourne, East Sussex was caught on video cutting off a man’s penis with nail clippers. The incident took place on January 4, 2020 and the video was found on his mobile phone.
Baulcomb was identified as the well-known Marius Gustavson, who was sentenced to life in prison last year for running the Eunuch Maker website. He exchanged more than 10,000 messages with Gustavson over four years. In June, Baulcomb pleaded guilty to assault. He had previously pleaded guilty to seven other charges, including possession of extreme pornography and production and distribution of child pornography.
The British court was informed that the extreme group was linked to the nullos subculture – short for castration, that is, the practice of removing the penis and testicles. One of the victims described this group as an environment with a cult atmosphere. At the sentencing, the judge described the interventions carried out by the group as butchery.
During the house search at Baulcombe in December 2022, police seized surgical instruments, medical supplies, drugs and also animal pliers used in castrations to cut the blood vessels supplying the testes. During the intervention, Baulcomb attempted to flush his iPhone down the toiletbut the device was saved and the materials leading to the indictment were subsequently recovered from it.
Marius Gustavson was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years jail after a court found he made almost £300,000 from his website. Nine other men were charged along with him.
Baulcomb was ordained a priest in 1970 and served in Chichester, West Sussex. He retired from full service in the church in 2003. He then applied for permission to conduct religious services, which allowed him to lead church services even after retirement.
Last year he was disqualified for life from ministering when a church tribunal heard his case after in December 2022, the police found crystal meth and ketamine with him. Baulcomb claimed at the time that experimenting with drugs or allowing them to be used in his home better helped him connect with troubled people as part of his pastoral care.
