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Lamey The Cable Guy wrote:
> 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.
We're here to get 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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