I read a couple of articles and found that the story was hard to follow. In some versions, these castrations took place in a bording school. In others, a mental institution for children. In one part of the article, the boys were casterated as some sort of misguided treatment for homosexuality. Later, it says that it was done as punishment for complaining about priests and monks molesting them. I don’t think the information is clear enough for me to have any opinon other than castration is not a reasonable treatment for non-violent sexual perversions.