Former vicar linked to ‘Eunuch Maker' castration cult admits back-street surgery

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A former vicar linked to the 'Eunuch Maker' ring performed a back-street surgery on another man's genitals with a pair of scissors.
Geoffrey Baulcomb, 79, retired from the historic St Mary the Virgin church in Eastbourne, East Sussex, several years ago, but was still ordained at the time of the offence.
A hearing at the Old Bailey heard how Baulcomb was a friend of Marius Gustavson, the imprisoned Norwegian ringleader of an extreme body modification cult operating in the UK.
The pair are said to have exchanged around 10,000 messages.
On Friday, Baulcomb admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent after using nail scissors to perform a procedure on a man's penis in January 2020. The victim cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Baulcomb carried out the unlawful procedure at his home in Filching Road, Eastbourne.
He previously admitted seven charges, including distributing an indecent video of a child and making a category A indecent image of a child.
Baulcomb admitted making four indecent photos of a child, namely four category B images and making 37 category C indecent images of a child.
He admitted three further charges of possessing extreme pornographic images.
The charges date between March 4 2020 and Dec 14 2022.
The self-styled 'Eunuch Maker' Gustavson mutilated paying customers and streamed it online.
The Norwegian, who had his own penis cut off, a nipple removed and his leg frozen so it had to be amputated, was jailed for life last year with a minimum term of 22 years.
Police had raided Baulcomb's £25,000 cottage near Eastbourne in December 2022 and found a stash of heroin along with the tranquilliser ketamine.
Baulcomb accepted a police caution for possessing the substances and told church officials he had been buying and using drugs, including heroin, 'periodically' for 20 years.
The Church of England's disciplinary tribunal had 'utterly rejected' his claim that taking drugs 'assisted him in carrying out his pastoral mission'.
Baulcomb was handed a permanent ban from any church position last September.
Prosecutor Caroline Carberry, KC, previously told the court: 'The images relate to moving images which had been on the 'Eunuch Maker' website.
'Mr Baulcomb is an acquaintance of Marius Gustavson and the evidence discloses over a four-year period he was regularly in touch, exchanging just over 10,000 messages to each other on their mobile phone.
'At the time of his arrest his phone was seized and analysed and as a result of that some material was found which led to this defendant being charged with the offence of section 18 GBH with intent.
'That charge specifically refers to the defendant carrying out a surgical procedure designed to enlarge the opening of the urethra and to use a pair of scissors to do so.
'There is a nine-second video of the procedure being carried out.'
Judge Nigel Lickley, KC told Baulcomb on Friday that he would likely face 'a custodial sentence of some length'.
He was placed on conditional bail and will be sentenced on Sept 1.
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