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Rotterdam Court Hears Vast Evidence in Barendrecht Child-Abuse Trial, Including 1.7 Million Files

Victim statements are due Thursday before prosecutors present their sentencing demand Friday.

Overview

  • On the second day of hearings, judges were told police recovered 1.7 million child-abuse files, including disks the suspect asked his parents to discard.
  • The 46-year-old defendant admitted years of abuse largely during sleepovers, describing a compulsion and drugging girls with strong doses of sleep medication mixed into chocolate milk or Fristi.
  • Investigators and the court detailed covert filming with a spy camera and a camera-pen hidden in places like a laundry basket and toiletry bag, as well as systematic archiving by victim and date.
  • The case file includes abuse of the suspect’s own daughter from infancy and DNA traces on victims’ clothing, with most identified victims aged roughly 9 to 12 at the time.
  • Psychiatric experts from the Pieter Baan Centrum report disorders and a high risk of reoffending, advising tbs with compulsory treatment as the six-day trial continues in Rotterdam.