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On 16 May 2006 23:06:06 -0700, prestonlewis@gmail.com wrote:
>You failed to mention this is a 10 year old story, originally published
>in the New York Times on Aug. 22, 1996. It's the first entry in a
>Google search for pedophile and Belgium. If you had stated the story
>is old, or it is an easy Google search that you discovered, then fine.
>But presenting this article as being "new" and "recent" by failing to
>include the date it was published and the newsmedia it was published in
>makes you look like amateurs. Just my thoughts. I like precise posts.
> Good luck.
You like? We're not here for you.
>
>
>bobandcarole wrote:
>> Pedophile Has Belgians Clamoring for Death Penalty
>> by Marlise Simons
>>
>> PARIS -- It is a horror story told many times in many places: a
>> convicted child kidnapper and rapist serves time in prison. He is let
>> off early for good behavior. The pedophile, unable or unwilling to
>> control his demons, strikes again.
>>
>> Marc Dutroux, 39, an unemployed Belgian electrician who was previously
>> convicted of abusing children, has followed the pattern to the letter.
>> In recent days, he has released two pallid young girls, aged 12 and 14,
>> who were sexually abused while locked in a hidden dungeon in one of his
>> several homes. Then he led police to the secret graves of two
>> 8-year-old girls he said had starved to death while in his home.
>>
>> After pornographic films and photographs were found in another of the
>> houses he owns in different towns in Belgium, the police said he
>> confessed to his role in the kidnapping last year of two teen-agers,
>> who were 17 and 19 at the time. The two girls are still missing, but
>> authorities say it is possible that they are alive.
>>
>> As the story unfolded in ever more gruesome detail this week, the
>> people of Belgium, many of whom were familiar with the faces of the
>> victims from the ubiquitous "missing" posters, have begun circulating
>> petitions about measures for dealing with sex offenders and calling for
>> restoring the death penalty.
>>
>> The case has commanded front-page attention across Europe, where it has
>> revived the debate over how to punish or control known offenders, and
>> what degree of freedom they should have after serving sentences.
>>
>> The issue of whether to notify a community that a convicted sex
>> offender released from prison is in the area has been the subject of
>> legislation in the United States.
>>
>> The fate of the six girls, and of six other children who are still
>> missing, has engendered a sense of national mourning, with television
>> images from across the country Wednesday showing cars driving around
>> with black ribbons and demonstrators carrying signs saying, "To death."
>>
>>
>> In Sars-la-Buissiere, a small village near Charleroi, in the south of
>> Belgium, the home of the two dead girls and the site of one of
>> Dutroux's houses, thousands have already filed past the two white
>> coffins of the little girls, whose bodies were exhumed from their
>> clandestine grave but are to be formally buried on Thursday.
>>
>> Some human rights groups argue that the industry of sexually exploiting
>> children is expanding, made easier through videos, computer links and
>> cheap travel to countries where poor children can be bought with
>> relative impunity. The police now suspect that Dutroux may have
>> profited from selling both children and child pornography.
>>
>> The parents of the dead girls are also demanding access to police files
>> and explanations of how the police could overlook important leads, like
>> the fact that Dutroux, his wife and three children were apparently
>> living on unemployment checks, yet he owned at least six houses and as
>> many cars.
>>
>> Several European countries, including France and Germany, have hardened
>> their sentences for child abusers in recent years, while some,
>> including the Netherlands, insist on supervision and counseling after a
>> convict's release and in some cases resort to chemical "castration,"
>> administering hormones to inhibit the abuser's libido.
>>
>> In Belgium, however, laws are more lenient. Dutroux was sentenced in
>> 1989 to 13 years in prison on multiple counts of rape and child abuse.
>> But he was released after three years for good behavior, even though
>> his own mother warned of the risks of recidivism.
>>
>> Belgians are also venting their anger against what they see as police
>> bungling. Belgian newspapers today published leaked police documents
>> showing that the police had been receiving tipoffs from an informer
>> since 1993, warning that Dutroux was "building cells" to hold kidnapped
>> children.
>>
>> The police this year made two visits to the house where the two girls
>> were held captive and said they believed Dutroux when he said the
>> voices they heard were those of his own children, the documents said.
>>
>> In the grave in the Dutroux backyard, the police also found the body of
>> Bernard Weinstein, an associate of Dutroux's. Dutroux told the police
>> that he killed Weinstein in a rage because he had given Weinstein money
>> to feed the two 8-year-old prisoners while he served a brief sentence
>> in jail. Dutroux said that the girls died of starvation.
>>
>> Beside Dutroux, three other adults, including his second wife, Michelle
>> Martin, have been arrested as accomplices in the abduction and illegal
>> imprisonment of children.
>>
>> The police are now hunting for the two teen-agers, whom Dutroux said he
>> and an associate kidnapped last year in the coastal resort of Ostend.
>> Belgium's attorney general said Wednesday that there was reason to
>> believe that they might be alive and in the hands of a prostitution
>> ring elsewhere in Europe. He said that the police were working through
>> Interpol and through authorities in nearby countries, including the
>> Czech Republic and Germany.
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