The “dentist butcher” of Château-Chinon, Jacobus Marinus Van Nierop, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for having mutilated a hundred people.
Dozens of healthy teeth pulled out, infections and abscesses, broken tools in the gums and left as they are, broken jaws, gums sewn into the cheek… Between 2008 and 2012, Jacobus Marinus – known as “Mark” – Van Nierop, a Dutch dentist has mutilated a hundred patients in his office in Château-Chinon, in the Nièvre area.
Prosecuted for “fraud”, “forgery and use of forgery” and “willful violence resulting in mutilation or permanent disability”, the one who has been called the “dentist butcher” or the “dentist of horror” was sentenced this Tuesday to 8 years in prison by the Nevers Criminal Court.
During his trial opened in early March, he did not bat an eyelid and expressed no regret in the face of the hundred of his victims. An expert psychologist had qualified Mark Van Nierop as “Narcissistic personality” with a “Major lack of compassion”.
Irreversible mutilations
Some of the victims suffer from irreversible mutilation. According to testimonies, the dentist used very heavy anesthesia, which allowed him to mutilate the stunned patients as he pleased, sometimes repeatedly.
Prosecutor Lucile Jaillon-Bru had denounced the “health disaster” caused by this man, now 51 years old. Out of the hundred or so complainants, the prosecutor admitted mutilations for 53 of them and asked for the reclassification of the facts for 20 other people, in particular as “violence with premeditation”. She finally retained 3 releases.
Questions about compensation
The horror dentist arrived in Château-Chinon in 2008. A great relief for this medical desert which had seen its last dentist retire in 2006. To obtain the right to practice and benefit from tax assistance, Mark Van Nierop had hidden from the Council of the Order of Dental Surgeons and his insurance the complaints and lawsuits against him in the Netherlands.
A lie that calls into question the payment and amount of compensation for victims. One of the civil party lawyers, Mr.e Charles Joseph-Oudin, plans to appeal to the Supreme Court to obtain these indemnities from his clients. The latter already have an appointment on July 4 before the compensation commission for crime victims (CIVI) of Bourges in order to obtain a first compensation from the Victims Guarantee Fund.
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