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A Danish man (a.k.a Clitoris collector) living in South Africa surgically removed the clitoris of multiple Lesotho women and stored them in his freezer.
Not to sell. Not to eat.
As trophies.
Police investigator Warrant Officer Lynda Steyn said it plainly in court: "It comes down to mutilation of private parts of a woman, cut out and kept as trophies."
He had quietly moved to Bloemfontein in 2004, married a local woman, and opened a licensed gun shop. He lived in a townhouse. Paid his taxes. Nobody suspected anything.
In September 2015, his wife Anna reported to police that he had cut her genitals while she was drunk. Hawks officers raided the house and went straight to the freezer.
What they found stopped them cold.
Nine women. Nine bags. Each one sealed, labeled, dated. A diary logging every single procedure. Surgical instruments.
A medical grade anaesthetic not registered in South Africa. Two more genitalia found hanging on hooks in the garage to dry. Child pornography he had produced himself.
A nine year old girl from Lesotho testified via video link that he had raped her.
His victims were women from Lesotho. A small, poor country completely surrounded by South Africa. Women unlikely to be believed. Unlikely to report him. He knew exactly who to target.
He posed as a surgeon. Told them he was cleaning them. That they would never want another man again.
Some he paid. Some he drugged with spiked champagne. All of them woke up in agony missing a part of their body.
His wife Anna was the star witness for the prosecution. She turned down witness protection and returned home to Maseru after his arrest.
One month later she was shot four times outside her house and killed.
From inside prison he had paid a wheelchair bound fellow prisoner the equivalent of $110 to arrange the hit. That prisoner told the court everything.
At trial he pleaded not guilty to all 58 charges.
The judge spoke for four hours. He said he had never felt so disgusted in his entire life.
20 charges were dropped on a legal technicality. South African law did not specify penalties for removing human tissue.
Convicted of 36 remaining charges. Rape of a child. Conspiracy to murder. Child pornography. Fraud. Illegal firearms.
Two life sentences plus 51 years.
The judge's final words: "You must be removed permanently from society."
One last detail. This man had been a convicted weapons criminal in Denmark before arriving in South Africa.
He entered the country without declaring his prior convictions, obtained a legal South African identity document, and registered a licensed gun shop with over $200,000 in stock.
Nobody checked.
He died in prison in 2024.
