Beyond the Dutroux Affair The reality of protected child abuse ... - Soup

services were in the possession of at least three statements from child
abusers that this ring had produced a number of snuff movies (69).
Unfortunately, the only film specifically mentioned in the press had all the
hallmarks of being fake, and indeed this later appears to have been the
case (70).
The pedophile ring yet again made the news in June 1997 when it was
announced that Warwick Spinks, a violent pedophile who ran a
homosexual boys club in Amsterdam (who also claimed he could arrange
snuff films), was to be released. Spinks had been convicted only two years
before for drugging and sexually assaulting a homeless boy, kidnapping
him to Amsterdam and selling him to a homosexual brothel. When his
apartment was raided, police found his clients' names, details of their
sexual preferences, phone numbers and information about young boys.
(71)
The most detailed investigation of the British child abuse colony in
Amsterdam was published in November 2000 by the Award-winning
journalist Nick Davies. Now even more evidence was provided for the
existence of not only a vast boy trafficking network, but also for the
existence of a small number of snuff movies. As it's always best to read
the original sources, a long excerpt from this article follows:
"A year after Bristol detectives finally started to unravel the ring of
paedophiles who had been abusing children there for up to 20 years, they
found an informant with an alarming story. The man, whom we will call
Terry, had a long history of sexually abusing boys. He did not come from
Bristol but, by chance, he had come across some of the paedophiles the
detectives were investigating - in Amsterdam, where he said they had
become involved with a group of exiled British child abusers who had
succeeded in commercialising their sexual obsession. The exiled
paedophiles were trafficking boys from other countries; running
legitimate gay brothels and selling under-aged boys "under the counter";
they had branched out into the production of child pornography. And they
had killed some of them... Terry said he had seen most of the [worst]
video himself and had vomited before he could reach the end..."
"Soon, other informants were offering more detail. One man said he had
seen Warwick Spinks selling a special video for pounds 4,000. It showed a
boy whom he thought was only eight or nine being sexually abused and