Dutchman accused of filming 400 nude children, including victims in U.S. (via webcam)

[Redfairen]

Source: Associated Press

Amsterdam -- Prosecutors have accused a Dutch man of abusing around 400 boys and girls aged 12-14 he met in online chat rooms, coercing them into committing sexual acts via webcam. Victims have so far been identified in the Netherlands, the U.S., Belgium and Spain.

Prosecution spokesman Evert Boerstra said the suspect was arrested in July but prosecutors only revealed the scale of his alleged crimes at his trial Friday. Under Dutch law, he has not yet entered a plea, and is identified only as "Michel S."



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[shenmue]

1. Evil

Put him under the jail. Forever.

[theHandpuppet]

2. In solitary

And even that's too good for him.

[CFLDem]

5. Even a stint at the LeQuint-Dickey mining company would be too lenient.

(Django reference)

[athenasatanjesus]

3. He should be forced to videotape a herd of Cape buffalo while nude...

from 2 feet away.

[Thor_MN]

4. No one is calling him the Prying Dutchman?

Sick creep.

[truthisfreedom]

6. how could he get away with something so sick for so long? anonymity?

How did so many children not report it?

[Ken Burch]

7. That's one of the things about children...the don't always have reference points of "normal".

If this is being done to them from(God help us)an early age, it's what reads as "normal" to them. Molestation, severe beatings, starvation...they see it as what is supposed to happen.

And the bastards who put kids through these nightmares are experts both at gaining trust and instilling fear. They tell the kids that it's "love", and then they tell them that, if they run away and tell people what was done to them, no one will believe them.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. My sister is in law enforcement...

and goes after sick fucks like this. She doesn't always sleep well. I am anti-death penalty, but stories like this make it hard.

[mackerel]

9. stories like this are why I am NOT

anti-death penalty

[Skittles]

10. can we start educating kids in kindergarten

what NOT TO DO online?

[hunter]

14. Yep. Maybe earlier.

We teach kids to stay out of the street and not to accept rides from strangers.

A kid freely accessing the internet has to know enough about sex to stay out of trouble.

My kids are old enough that we never had that problem. They had a straightforward sex education. There was only one family computer, it was in the living room, and it didn't have a camera. They didn't get cellphones until middle school, their own computers until high school, and those didn't have cameras either.

I'm not blaming the kids who were manipulated by this creep. When automobiles became common parents had to start teaching their kids about the dangers of those too.

[Alamuti Lotus]

11. how does one coerce a person via webcam? *nt

[ManiacJoe]

12. Coerce may be the wrong word.

The article says the communication was normally done via IM chats. You cannot really do any coercion that way, but you can to tricking and encouraging.

[Alamuti Lotus]

13. "entice" is probably more accurate

Unfortunately, that raises other questions that I assume the authorities would rather not bring up.