Face of Nation : Authorities say a Florida man has been charged with performing a castration on another man he met on a dark web eunuch fetish website.
The Highland County Sheriff’s Office posted on social media that 74-year-old Gary Van Ryswyk was arrested Monday and charged with practicing medicine without a license.
Deputies say they responded to a Sebring home late Sunday after a 911 hang-up. Van Ryswyk led them to a room where they found a man with a towel over his bleeding groin. The victim was taken to a hospital and listed in stable condition.
Van Ryswyk told investigators he had performed a similar procedure at a local motel several years ago and that man had gone to the hospital without calling police. Van Ryswyk was being held on $250,000 bond. Jail records didn’t list an attorney. This one is a little … let’s just say sensitive. You could even say it’s kinda nuts.
Just before midnight on Sunday, Aug. 18, a deputy responded to a home on Orday Road in Sebring after a 911 hang-up. These are pretty routine and deputies respond to many of them per shift. But most of them don’t make the cut when it comes to being memorable. This one will definitely hang around in the memory for a while.
When the deputy arrived and knocked on the door, it was answered by 74-year-old Gary Van Ryswyk. He told the deputy he had just performed a castration on a man and, to say the least, Van Ryswyk had dropped the ball on this one.
Deputies found the man on the bed with a towel over his groin, which was bleeding heavily. Nearby, there was a pink container which held two body parts that had recently been much closer to the victim. The victim was taken to the hospital and was later flown to a regional medical center. He is listed in stable condition. The room was set up like a surgical center with medical equipment and painkillers. There was also a camera set up to record the procedure.
Van Ryswyk told deputies he had met the victim on a website on the dark web called eunuch.com (click that link at your own risk) which is for people who have a castration fetish. He told the victim that he had experience on animals and had even removed one of his own testicles in 2012. He told deputies he had tried to perform the procedure on the victim a week earlier, but when he tried to sanitize the area, something came up so the procedure had to be delayed.
He also said he had done a similar procedure on a man in a local motel a few years ago that turned out pretty much like this one, but couldn’t remember the other man’s name. The man went to the hospital, but law enforcement was not notified.
