-Caveat Lector- This is from back in 1996 to 1998 but the issues are still being debated. This is towards the end of the page. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/child.htm Child Pornography Investigation in Holland, July 1998 According to Reuters, the Dutch police were investigating allegations that an international child pornography ring exploited toddlers as young as two and distributed their images worldwide via the Internet. "The investigation focuses on child pornography in all its facets--the production and distribution of the material," a local police spokesman told Reuters, adding that the police were not yet in possession of the alleged pornographic material. The Dutch inquiry follows a report by an anti pornography group that it found thousands of computer disks in a flat in the Dutch seaside town of Zandvoort. The disks were loaded with pornographic pictures of children, according to the Dutch current affairs television program NOVA reported. The police spokesman would give no further details of the case pending the outcome of the investigation. He also declined to comment on reports that Dutch police were working with Belgian and German authorities. "We are waiting for the [pornographic material] to be handed over, then it will be used in our investigation," the police spokesman said. "All the material...is either in the hands of the television [program] or the [Belgian group Morkhoven]." According to the German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost, Morkhoven stumbled across the disks during a search for a Berlin boy who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1993 when he was 12. The trail led Morkhoven to the Netherlands and finally to the Zandvoort flat, the newspaper said. The child pornography network, which Berliner Morgenpost said stretches around the globe, has its center in Berlin. It was not clear how Morkhoven gained access to the address. The property’s owner, allegedly a member of the ring, was reportedly murdered by another gang member early this year in Italy. According to NOVA, the pornographic pictures uncovered in the flat were stored on thousands of high-density disks. Morkhoven suspects the images were passed via the Internet to a regular group of customers. It claims the Zandvoort operation was part of an international network of child pornography producers and consumers, extending to the United States, Russia, and Israel. Dutch anti pornography campaigners have long complained there is insufficient regulation of the Internet and the material it carries. One local group, Meldpunt Kinderporno, wrote to the Dutch government recently urging the introduction of measures to combat child pornography on the Web. Finland Police seized child pornography at the Helsinki home of a 19 year-old student On August 28, 1996 in helsinki - Finland the police seized two computers and nearly 350 floppy disks at the house of a 19 year-old student. The material showed sadistic acts involving Caucasian and Asian children, including torture, mutilation, and cannibalism. Police specialist Kaj Malmberg stated that: "These pictures of adults having sex with children are really hard pornography. This is exceptioannly severe hard pornography involving very severe abuse of children" The unnamed student was not arrested because of the liberal Finnish law. Possession and distribution of hard pornography is a minor offence with a maximum penalty of six months in jail. Malmberg stated that: "It's like speeding or something." According to the Reuters report the Finnish police must wait until the student returns from the university outside Helsinki to even interrogate him. According to the police the student's computer system can be connected to the Internet and a distribution link has been found with Sweeden. Malmberg said he suspects people in several other European countries had used the system. Merja-Maarja Turunen with the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health stated that Finland must crack down against such offenders. "It is important. It's not a minor offence. It's obvious that somewhere along the line a child is being molested." The arrest of Marc Dutroux in Belgium See the TIME article by clicking on the image. THE Belgian government appealed for international co-operation to crush paedophile rings as it sought to defuse the nation's fury over the child sex gang responsible for the death of two small girls. The appeal from Stefaan De Clerck, the Justice Minister, came as detectives in Neufchateau, continued questioning Marc Dutroux in whose garden the bodies of Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo were found along with that of Bernard Weinstein, another gang member. Despite intensive interrogation of Marc Dutroux, there was little sign of a breakthrough in the hunt for about a dozen missing Belgian children. They include Ann Marchal, 19, and Eefje Lambrecks, 17, whom Dutroux allegedly admitted kidnapping last summer. Justice Minister De Clerck stated that the problem of child pornography is not only Belgium's problem but an international one. He announced measures to strengthen the Belgians' fight against paedophile rings including centralising the investigation of missing children. See David Millward "Belgian plea for help to crush child porn rings" , 20 August 1996, Electronic Telegraph Evidence emerging over the past weeks suggests that Dutroux and his associates' activities spread across Europe. Michelle Martin, Dutroux's wife, is known to have spent a lot of time out of the country. Michel Bourlet, the prosecutor leading the investigation into the paedophile ring, has confirmed that he is contacting police forces across Europe. Michelle Hirsch, a lawyer stated that: "Child pornography and prostitution is an international business. Traffickers buy children from poor families in Asia and with the co-operation of police and corrupt officials they arrange for their transport across international borders." See David Millward, "Black market in paedophile porn" , 22 August 1996, Electronic Telegraph See also: See Roger Boyes, "Prayers and blame stirred by a nation's lost innocents" , 19 August 1996, The Times. See Roger Boyes, "Hunt for victims of child sex ring", 19 August 1996, The Times. See Roger Boyes, "Belgian justice in the dock over paedophile who was freed early" , 20 August 1996, The Times. See Roger Boyes, "Horrified nation buries victims of paedophile ring", 23 August 1996, The Times. See Nick Rufford, "The making of a monster" , 25 August 1996, The Sunday Times. See Charles Bremner, "Investigators raid police as scandals widen in Belgium" , 11 September, 1996, The Times. World magazines and newspapers reported the use of the Internet for distribution of child pornographyby paedophile rings following the sad events happened in Belgium. That is why I have included the Belgium case in this section. It is sad that a horrible event such as this was needed for the attention of the media to report on the serious problem of child pornography. Here is another site, too. http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/96/08/28/timfgnfgn03004.html?1005038 < The material showed sadistic acts involving Caucasian and Asian children, including torture, mutilation, and cannibalism. These are not homosexuals. True homosexuals do not have this kind of problem. Are these even straight pedifiles? I know I have to fine tune my web page - but ? Flame it to death, I am taking notes!!! Here it is again for any that have not had a pot shot at it. Or any that just want to repeat the experience! http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/sex_h.htm aka The Pied Piper DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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