WHY WORRY ABOUT VICTIMS OF A CRIME WHEN YOU CAN CASTRATE THEM? Henk Heithuis, who had been raised in Dutch Catholic institutions was sexually abused by a priest. He told the police, was brought to a Catholic psychiatric hospital and castrated in 1956. It seems other 10 were mutilated as well. Heithius died in an accident two years later. The sexual abuser was transferred to Nova Scotia to work with children still.