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A retired Church of England vicar has been sentenced to three years in prison after admitting to carrying out an illegal castration and possessing indecent and extreme pornographic material.
Geoffrey Baulcomb, 79, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent after a video was found on his phone showing him using nail scissors on another man’s genitals during a non-medical procedure. The incident took place in January 2020 and was filmed.
He also pleaded guilty to seven other charges, including making and distributing indecent images of children, and possession of extreme pornography involving serious injury and acts with animals.
Police discovered 31 indecent images of children and 182 extreme pornographic images on Baulcomb’s devices, as well as small amounts of heroin and ketamine at his home near Eastbourne during a raid in December 2022.
Baulcomb was linked to Marius Gustavson, the operator of the “Eunuch Maker” website, who was jailed for life in 2024. The two exchanged over 10,000 messages over four years, and some of the material on Baulcomb’s devices originated from that site.
At the Old Bailey, Judge Mark Lucraft KC described the procedure as dangerous and performed without medical training or sterile conditions. He noted the seriousness of filming the act for sexual purposes. The sentence was reduced due to the victim’s consent, Baulcomb’s age, health, and guilty plea.
Baulcomb was ordained in 1970 and retired in 2003 but remained an ordained priest until his expulsion by the Church of England last year. His permission to officiate was removed after police informed the Diocese of Chichester of the investigation.
