‘Eunuch Maker’ Castration Ring Member Jailed

A former vicar who was part of a ‘Eunuch Maker’ castration ring has been jailed after using nail scissors on a man’s genitals.

Reverend Geoffrey Baulcomb, 79, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent after the video of the shocking procedure in January 2020 was found on his phone.

He also admitted to seven other charges, including making and distributing pictures of children and having extreme pornography, and has been given a three-year jail sentence.

Baulcomb had 31 indecent photographs of a boy as a child, as well as other sexual pictures of children, both male and female.

The vicar had 182 extreme pornographic photos showing serious injury to a person’s private parts, five pictures portraying an act threatening a person’s life and eight photographs showing a person performing a sex act on an animal.

Some of the material included moving images which appeared on the Eunuch Maker website, run by Marius Gustavson, 47.

Norwegian national Gustavson received a life sentence, with a minimum of 22 years, last year after a court heard he earned almost £300,000 from the site where thousands of visitors paid to view sick clips of procedures, including castrations.

He had his own penis cut off, a nipple removed, and his leg frozen so it had to be amputated.

Baulcomb and Gustavson were said to have been ‘acquaintances’, exchanging more than 10,000 messages over four years. 

At the Old Bailey on Monday, Judge Mark Lucraft, KC, the Recorder of London, said: ‘With any extreme body modification procedure, there has to be some positive planning and pre-organisation. 

‘The procedure involved the use of scissors, which in the circumstances are highly dangerous.

‘You undertook the procedure in conditions far from sterile and did so without any medical skills or training.

‘The procedure and the resulting injury is one that is serious; it is a permanent, long-lasting procedure that will have serious effects on the victim.

‘It is an aggravating feature that the procedure is filmed. Bearing in mind the obvious sexual nature of this offence, it is something that adds seriousness.

‘Those who have written about you speak warmly and highly about you and your many qualities.

‘It is clear many have been assisted by you over the years, and I suspect many who knew you will have been deeply shocked by what they have heard in this hearing.’

Judge Lucraft said he had reduced the sentence because of the victim’s consent to the procedure, Baulcomb’s health, age, and character and his guilty plea. 

The retired clergyman was still ordained at the time of his offences, but a disciplinary body expelled him from the Church of England last year.

After being seen on camera widening a man’s urethral entrance in a nine-second footage of the event, he entered a guilty plea to causing grievous bodily injury with intent at the Old Bailey in June.

The footage, which was discovered on the vicar’s mobile phone, is said to have been filmed on January 4, 2020. He was later arrested in December 2022.

Baulcomb previously confessed to three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, namely one Category A image, four Category B images and 37 Category C indecent images.

Three additional charges against Baulcomb related to possession of extreme pornography, one of which related to eight shots of a person committing an act of intercourse with a live or dead unknown animal.

Another involved ‘182 images which portrayed in an explicit and realistic way an act which resulted or was likely to result in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals and which were grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character’.

Police ransacked Baulcomb’s £25,000 cottage near Eastbourne in December 2022 and discovered a cache of heroin along with the tranquilliser ketamine.

He received a police caution for having the substances and told church officials he had been purchasing and using drugs, including heroin, ‘periodically’ for 20 years.

The Church of England’s (CofE) disciplinary tribunal had ‘utterly rejected’ his assertion that taking drugs ‘assisted him in carrying out his pastoral mission’.

Baulcomb, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was ordained as a priest in 1970, according to the Church of England website.

He withdrew from the historic St Mary the Virgin church in Eastbourne in 2003, but was still ordained at the time of the crimes. 

The diocese said Baulcomb’s permission to officiate was immediately removed after being contacted by police.

A statement said: ‘The Diocese wishes to put on record our gratitude for the Metropolitan Police’s pro-active approach to information sharing and partnership working, which has enabled us to manage the risks Mr Baulcomb has presented whilst under investigation.’

After his plea, Baulcomb was given conditional bail, ordering him not to attend any Church of England premises or functions and to have no contact with children under the age of 18. 

These individuals are operating their sinister secrets through their faith, which appears to be the only function of religion these days – just goes to show that there are some serious oddballs out there masquerading as agents of the church, but this has been going on for centuries.

Some people might say that this man is going straight to hell, but actually, all he has to do is repent, and he will be accepted into heaven, which is all extremely convenient.

How many more like him lurk behind the inner sanctum of the church? It must be quite distressing for parents whose children were held by him during their baptism.

We are all aware that the church is rife with paedophiles and deviants who lurk in plain sight.

The devil hides in plain sight and has numerous recruits, but he mostly likes clergymen.