bobandcarole wrote:
> 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.
>
> So what?
>
>
> 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.
>
> Like I give a flying fuck what you think pedophile.......
>
> > Good luck.
>
> You'll need it more then me.
>
> >
> >
> > 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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