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<strong>Child</strong> PornograPhy First report oF the Dutch NatioNal rapporteur
Youth Care Agency, youth services, therapists specialised in trauma and system treatments (Youth
section – Netherlands Institute for Psychological Care and Addiction Care), the <strong>Child</strong> Care and Protection
Board, guardianship, a forensic paediatrician (hospital) and a forensic interviewer from the
police. According to Fier Fryslân, it is intended that a lawyer, a developer of methodology and a
(special) professor will be associated with the centre, and that the Dutch Forensic Institute and the
Netherlands Youth Institute, the addiction services or the Netherlands Institute for Psychological
Care and Addiction Care will also be involved, if necessary.
In 2012, a specialised Sexual Violence Centre will be launched in Utrecht for victims of all ages who
have been indecently assaulted or raped. According to protocol, various disciplines will also work
together under one roof in this centre: the police, (forensic) doctors, nurses and psycho-social assistance.
717 The Centre was inspired by CEOP in Great Britain and the CACs in Sweden (see box above).
Combining care for offenders with the provision of assistance to victims is characteristic of a number of
the initiatives described above. In this connection, the Tilburg Safety House 718 can also be cited. This is a
collaborative association consisting of a large number of organisations, in which safety and care are combined
under one roof through a family-based approach, involving a combination of measures in the form
of criminal law, care for offenders and the provision of assistance to victims. 719 From the perspective of
after-care for offenders of sexual abuse as well, the perspective of the victim is taken into consideration,
and the outcome is the combination of care for offenders and the provision of assistance to victims. 720
3.7.3 Provision of assistance to victims of sexual abuse within the context
of child pornography
With regard to the focus of this report, it is important to establish whether or not the provision of
assistance to victims of sexual abuse who are minors is also aimed at providing assistance to victims
of offences related to child pornography. No recent research has been carried out into practice in the
Netherlands with regard to this point. A study was, however, carried out in 1998 by the working group
<strong>Child</strong> pornography and child prostitution in the Netherlands. 721 On the matter of the treatment of victims
of child pornography, this report began by remarking that at that time, the provision of assistance
to victims of sexual abuse in general left a lot to be desired, and that up until that point, there existed
few opportunities for supervising and providing therapy for young children who were victims of sexual
abuse, either in a family setting, or elsewhere. Supervision and therapy were usually limited to regular
forms of therapy, even though it had already emerged from scientific research that only therapy that is
specifically directed at abuse is effective, according to the report. The report also indicated that the provision
of assistance to the parents of abused children still did not form a part of the assistance on offer.
The working group subsequently described the situation for the victims of child pornography as even
worse: at that time, nothing was known about treatment of these victims, and even fewer opportunities
for treatment were available.
717 www.umcutrecht.nl/zorg (viewed 22 August 2011).
718 Midden Brabant Care and Safety House, one of the many Safety Houses in the Netherlands.
719 www.tilburg.veiligheidshuis.org (viewed 24 August 2011); See §3.6.3.1 for a more detailed description
of this Safety House.
720 See §3.6.
721 Working group on <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> and <strong>Child</strong> Prostitution in the Netherlands, 1998.