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<strong>Child</strong> PornograPhy First report oF the Dutch NatioNal rapporteur
Table 1.2 Sexual violence against children – online/offline and hands-on/hands-off
Sexual violence against
children Online Offline
A man, intent on finding ‘power and
thrills’, attempted to lure underage girls
into his power via MSN chat rooms on
the Internet. In order to make the girls
carry out sex acts in front of a webcam,
he frightened them by threatening to
post photographs of them taken from
the social networking site Hyves onto a
sex website and in one case he actually
Hands- on
did so. He was also able to retrieve their
telephone numbers and he threatened
to harm the girls’ parents or to set their
house on fire. Only one girl allowed
herself to become so afraid that she
actually complied with the perpetrator’s
perverse wishes in front of the webcam.
In doing so, she was forced to perform
sex acts with a hairbrush whilst naked, of
which the perpetrator made images. 108
The Court of Arnhem sentenced a
58-year-old man to eighteen months
imprisonment, six of which suspended,
for the sexual abuse of (with certainty) at
least nine boys in Bangladesh. The man
was alleged to have committed these
offences in a shelter for street children,
one of which he had set up himself. The
abuse was alleged to have taken place
between January 2001 and August
2005. 109
In the period from 31 October 2007 to A suspect was guilty of the sexual cor-
21 November 2007 inclusive, the suspect ruption of three girls of 14 years of age.
made contact with girls via MSN under The offence was that he approached
the name Olaf from his home in Veghel them suddenly when they went to relieve
and used an e-mail address. He held themselves in the woods and in their
conversations of a sexual nature with vicinity let his trousers down, took hold
the girls. When questioned by the girls of his penis, showed it to them and shook
as to how old he was, he replied that he it or waved it around. The individuals
Hands-off
was 17/18 years old. He asked the girls
to switch the webcam on. When the
who reported the incidents stated that
they were shocked at the behaviour of
connection was made, a photograph of a the suspect and/or were afraid. The sus-
boy with a cap appeared which was not a pect was therefore guilty of the offence
photograph of the suspect. The suspect against the three minors, which has been
had obtained that photograph from the a criminal offence by virtue of Article
Internet and used it to remain anony- 248d of the Dutch Criminal Code since 1
mous. On the webcam screen, the suspect January 2010. The purpose of this Article
allowed it to be visible that he was hold- is to protect minors and to tackle abnoring
his genitals and was masturbating. mal sexual and personal development. 111
The examples in Table 1.1 and Table 1.2 show that the legal boundary between child pornography and
other forms of sexual violence has become more blurred and consequently more complex.