Netherlands: health care abuses

by Alice Popovici

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Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) says it has found more evidence of abuses that "went on unreported for years in Dutch Roman Catholic homes for the mentally disabled," including "sex offences, castration, secret medical experiments and possibly murder," according to this report.

Read RNW's previous coverage of deaths at Catholic homes for mentally disabled boys and girls in the 1950s here and here.

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