HENK BLANKESPOOR
On May 18 1999, Henk Blankespoor, born on November 1, 1943 in The Hague, was arrested by the police of The Hague in his home in Wateringen around 05.57 AM on suspicion of sexual abuse of accuser Edith Blankespoor.
He declares to the police that he is baffled and hasn’t been guilty of any criminal offense ever.
Henk Blankespoor accordingly says, unasked, that he has been married to his wife for 33 years and has never slept with another woman.
He further states that Gerard Blankespoor left his church in 1982 in order to study theology in Zeist.
That was, according to Henk Blankespoor, no study at university level.
The reason he left the church was, according to Henk Blankespoor, that Gerard Blankespoor wanted too much and was ambitious.
Later he heard that Gerard Blankespoor was studying in Zeist.
Somewhat later, Henk Blankespoor says, he read a news article about all kinds of wild-west situations that occurred at De Schakel in Apeldoorn, where at that time Gerard Blankespoor was the director.
He knew that Gerard Blankespoor had been removed from a small church community in Apeldoorn because of adultery. The newspaper also said that his former wife Jane Oostrom needed to flee because she had been mistreated by Gerard Blankespoor.
He minded most of all that his brother Gerard Blankespoor made a mess of his life.
Henk Blankespoor states at the end of his interrogation with the police in Rijswijk, that he has nothing to do with sexual abuse by Fred Blankespoor.
He has not been guilty of that at all.
He can not tell the police whether his brothers Fred Blankespoor and Gerard Blankespoor are guilty of this or not.
Despite the bad things he knows about his brothers, he can hardly imagine that they have been guilty of sexual abuse of one of their children.
” He declares to the police that he is baffled and hasn’t been guilty of any criminal offense ever; he can not tell the police whether his brothers Fred Blankespoor and Gerard Blankespoor are guilty of this or not ”
On May 20 1999 Henk Blankespoor is interviewed by the police again and says that he has done absolutely nothing wrong, but that there is something else he wants to talk about:
“A few years ago I wrote a letter to Gerard Blankespoor in which I expressed a lot of sadness about Gerard Blankespoor’s derailed marriage and the decline of the work of De Schakel.
In that letter I go back to the moment when nothing wrong has happened in Gerard Blankespoor’s life yet, when he left our (his) ecclesiastical congregation and the concern I have expressed about the path he, Gerard Blankespoor, chose.
Unfortunately, I have to conclude that this concern has come true.
At that same time I even expressed concern that it would go from bad to worse if he did not take notice of my warnings.
I also sent copies of that letter to colleagues of mine in the country. I wanted to show everyone that I did not have anything to do with my youngest brother, Gerard Blankespoor.
So I distanced myself from my youngest brother.
I will send you a copy of the letter and I would like you to add that letter to this statement. “
Such came to pass. (see also Letter from Henk Blankespoor)
FACTS
– Henk Blankespoor has been accused by Edith Blankespoor as co-perpetrator, moreover an intellectual perpetrator of the sexual abuse by the Blankespoor brothers and Hans Jongsma.
– Remarkable in this first short interview by the police in Rijswijk from Henk Blankespoor, is his remark that he has never committed adultery.
Apparently, he thinks this is necessary in order to underscore the big difference with his brother, Gerard Blankespoor, who did commit adultery.
– In his second statement at the police in Rijswijk the frustrations of Henk Blankespoor towards his brother Gerard Blankespoor become more apparent by calling Gerard Blankespoor’s study at the Bible school in Zeist, as a study “not at a university level”.
Henk Blankespoor studied at a seminary in England before he became an assistant preacher of the Pentecostal chapel on the Ridderspoorweg in The Hague.
This was just a Bible school as well on the same theological level as the Central Pentecostal Bible School in Zeist.
Nothing more, nothing less and nothing wrong with it at all.
With this Henk Blankespoor also indicates that he is having difficulties with the fact that his brother Gerard Blankespoor, like him, has a calling to serve God and then is liable to come on the same level as Henk Blankespoor.
This is also evident from the fact that in 1982 Henk Blankespoor wrote an indignant letter to the board of the Bible school in Zeist, as well as to the umbrella organization of the Pentecostal movement in the Netherlands.
With this letter he tries to prevent his brother Gerard Blankespoor from studying there, because Gerard Blankespoor would have failed in the ecclesiastical congregation of Henk Blankespoor.
The board of the Bible School, as well as the umbrella organization of the Pentecostal movement of the Netherlands, knowing the ambitions and motives of Henk Blankespoor only too well, did not respond to his request to refuse Gerard Blankespoor as a student.
With regard to Henk Blankespoor’s claim that Gerard Blankespoor would have failed in his church and therefore could not study at the Bible school, the following:
On April 6 1982 Ger Korevaar, secretary of the board of the church of Henk Blankespoor (Vegho), writes the following:
“It is clear to us, after reading and re-reading, that you have made the step to leave our congregation in a well-considered manner, which we can only respect.
Together we have had a good time indeed and that is why we will miss you both and your children dearly.
Gerard and Jane: we thank you both for the friendship and for your commitment in the teams and we wish you His blessings, He who helps writing every book of life from the beginning to the end.
A warm goodbye and hopefully seeing you again! “
It is therefore very obvious that Henk Blankespoor out of personal rancor and without the knowledge of the board of his church, wrote the indignant letter to the Bible school, which they ignored.
This would continue to have wider implications on the attitude of Henk Blankespoor towards Gerard Blankespoor.
– Henk Blankespoor is clearly wrongly informed about Gerard Blankespoor’s departure from a small church community in Apeldoorn.
Gerard Blankespoor has not been dismissed by the board of the Filadelfia community in Apeldoorn, but has quited himself as a minister together with some other people.
The board of Filadelfia, under the instigation of Jan Pieter Overduin who stirred everyone up, wanted to stop the rehabilitation work as this would give too much unrest during the church services and Bible studies.
Due to the fact that Gerard Blankespoor believed in a practical christianity, that is to say not only to talk about love, but especially to actually experience love, he left Filadelfia and the Sheba relief work that he founded, to create a new ecclesial community called “De Rots” and to set up a new rehabilitation work “De Schakel” (the extramarital relationship of Gerard Blankespoor with Ingrid Dijkkamp started after leaving the Filadelfia community).
Again we see the attempt by Henk Blankespoor to belittle Gerard Blankespoor’s work and preferably to reduce it to zero:
When Gerard Blankespoor was appointed as a minister, Filadelfia indeed was a small church community of only ten people (children not included), most of whom were aged.
Because of the leadership and dedication of Gerard Blankespoor this community grew in five years to more than two hundred people, about the same size as the church of Henk Blankespoor.
That the ex-wife of Gerard Blankespoor, Jane Oostrom, had to flee from Gerard Blankespoor is a delusion of Henk Blankespoor and was not in the newspaper either.
Before she left, Jane Oostrom had an extramarital relationship with Rob Engels, an addict who was an inhabitant of De Schakel. When there was a danger that this would come out, from one moment to the next Jane Oostrom went off with him.
As he later said, in the emotions that came off, Gerard Blankespoor expressed things that should not have been said. Even though this is understandable in such a situation, it is certainly inexcusable.
Of what the mess, that Henk Blankespoor pictures of Gerard Blankespoor’s life, furthermore consists of, is still a mystery and is nothing more than wishful thinking on Henk Blankespoor’s part.
After all, schisms and splits occur in ecclesiastical communities.
History is full of it, and Henk Blankespoor, as a youth minister, has also left the Pentecostal Chapel on the Ridderspoorweg in The Hague with a large part of the youth group to start his own ecclesiastical congregation in the early seventies under the name Full Gospel Church of The Hague and surroundings (Vegho).
There is nothing wrong with that, according to Gerard Blankespoor.
– Henk Blankespoor clearly distances himself from his two brothers by stating that he is not sure whether Gerard and Fred Blankespoor are innocent.
Remarkable, when you consider that Edith Blankespoor pictures him as the man who knew everything and that everything took place in the churches under his leadership.
According to Gerard Blankespoor, it becomes apparent that Henk Blankespoor thinks he is the center of everything and cannot think logically.
” Henk Blankespoor clearly distances himself from his two brothers by stating that he is not sure whether Gerard and Fred Blankespoor are innocent; remarkable, when you consider that Edith Blankespoor pictures him as the man who knew everything and that everything took place in the churches under his leadership “
After all, if Fred and Gerard Blankespoor would have done it, he would have done it as well, according to Edith Blankespoor’s statement.
No, Henk Blankespoor says he is innocent, cannot say this about his two brothers and also knows terrible things about his brothers.
According to Gerard Blankespoor it becomes more and more clear that Henk Blankespoor tries to create (read: construct) an image about how good he is and how bad (and in particular) Gerard Blankespoor is;
Fred Blankespoor is no good, but Gerard Blankespoor is certainly no good.
As Henk Blankespoor says in his statement “I can hardly imagine that they have sexually abused their own children”.
Hardly?
Yes, but in fact he suggestively says that it is possible.
After all, they, his brothers, are different from him!
This superior way of thinking Henk Blankespoor does, cannot be misunderstood, nor his envy and resentment towards Gerard Blankespoor!
– At his last interview with the police, Henk Blankespoor is passed the prelude of his game and indicated what really concerns him; the letter written by him to Gerard Blankespoor.
It starts by stating how passionate he is about Gerard Blankespoor;
he is saddened by Gerard Blankespoor’s derailed marriage and the downfall of the work of De Schakel.
When Gerard Blankespoor was under his care in his church, everything went well with him.
Afterwards, when Gerard Blankespoor left his church, things actually went wrong right away.
The worries Henk Blankespoor had come true.
Things became worse for Gerard Blankespoor.
According to Henk Blankespoor, he did not care about his warnings.
Henk Blankespoor could not do anything but distances himself from Gerard Blankespoor, and as many ministers in the country as possible should be informed about this.
MOTIVE
– That letter from Henk Blankespoor about Gerard Blankespoor has indeed been added to the dossier of the police and is therefore the reason we include this in this website about the legacy of Gerard Blankespoor, because given the content, Gerard Blankespoor never responded to this letter (see Letter from Henk Blankespoor).
– That Henk Blankespoor’s statement recorded at the police in Rijswijk is included in the False Charges, is because Henk Blankespoor, accused of sexual abuse himself, does not shy away from taking the opportunity to make his younger brother Gerard Blankespoor look bad again! (see Letter from Henk Blankespoor)
