Overview
- Prosecutors say the 35‑year‑old suspect, Ramon M., is accused of abusing a ten‑year‑old in Hoogkerk and of grooming children aged eight to seventeen through social media over several years.
- Investigators seized two phones that contained roughly 500 individual chat threads, of which about 150 were traced to child‑pornographic material and used to identify nearly 60 likely victims.
- The case began after the parents of an initial victim reported the abuse and investigators have already contacted parents of children in the North of the Netherlands while continuing careful notifications nationwide.
- Ramon M. was remanded in custody for three months and is undergoing psychological and psychiatric evaluations, with prosecutors expecting the assessment report after the summer as they prepare the case for substantive handling by year‑end.
- The police say the probe is resource intensive because teams cannot review every conversation, so investigators are focusing on the identifiable subset of roughly 60 children and tracing digital evidence from Snapchat.