US EditionEx-vicar jailed for cutting man's penis with scissors and filming it
Reverend Baulcomb, 79, admitted to grievous bodily harm and child image offenses linked to a mutilation ring led by 'Eunuch Maker' Gustavson, exchanging over 10,000 messages over four years.
- On Monday, September 1, Reverend Geoffrey Baulcomb, 79, retired Church of England vicar, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to three years after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
- The court heard Baulcomb was a long-time associate of Marius Gustavson, exchanging more than 10,000 messages over four years; Gustavson ran a paid website with 22,841 subscribers earning nearly �300,000 and was jailed last year after Operation Viktor.
- Police found surgical tools, medical supplies and a Burdizzo clamp during a December 2022 raid; Baulcomb also pleaded guilty to GBH and possessing 195 extreme pornographic images.
- The Diocese of Chichester immediately withdrew Baulcomb's Permission to Officiate and asked him to stop attending his local church, while Judge Mark Lucraft KC categorized the offence as among the most serious due to planning and filmed evidence.
- Operation Viktor exposed a network streaming extreme mutilations to 22,841 subscribers, generating nearly �300,000 and leaving victims with irreversible, life‑changing injuries.
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