Drugs and Kids and a Gay Man in Netherlands > Demonic possession, child rape, murder in the Netherlands; Maastricht U. removes 'safe space' after sexual abuse; Dutch ISIS Bride Trial Starts for enslaving Yazidi women

 

The drug culture that has taken hold of the world is madness personified. It is almost always that kids pay the price for the madness of men, but with drugs, that price goes right through the roof.

Suspect says he wanted to "do something sexual"

with 9 y.o. Gino the moment he saw him

Donny M. knew he wanted to “do something” to 9-year-old Gino van der Straeten the moment he saw him walking in Kerkrade on the evening of 1 June 2022, the 24-year-old man said in court on Monday, NOS reports. “It was like a switch had been flipped. My focus was only on him. I wanted to do something with him. Sexually.”

This is demonic possession at work, IMHO.

M. is on trial for abducting, drugging, sexually abusing, and killing the 9-year-old boy. Gino disappeared from a playground in Kerkrade that day. M. was arrested three days later and told the police where to find Gino’s body, wrapped in garbage bags and dumped behind a burned-out house near M.’s home in Geleen. M. confessed two years ago, but the investigation took a long time because the man’s story did not always match the trace evidence.

During the first hours of the trial today, the judge discussed the runup to Gino’s abduction with M. The man said that he was supposed to work on 1 June 2022, but instead took drugs and drove around in his car in Zuid-Limburg.

He spotted Gino in Kerkrade in the early evening and followed him to the playground, M. said. He spent some time playing football with Gino until the boy said he had to go home. “I told him I would take him home. Then I think he grabbed his scooter and we walked to my car.”

According to M., Gino started to panic when he didn’t stop at his sister’s home, where the boy was staying. M. told Gino to sit on the food of the passenger seat, so that he would not be visible. “But when he did not, I got angry.”

Gino cried and screamed. “I went completely crazy from all that screaming,” said M. Because of that, the man stopped at a swimming pool in Landgraaf, according to him, intending to leave Gino there. He took Gino’s scooter from the car and noticed a woman staring at him. M. said he was afraid Gino would tell her he had been kidnapped, so M. left the scooter and took the boy with him.

The prosecutor asked M. why he didn’t get Gino out of the car first if he wanted to get rid of the boy so badly. “I didn’t think like that,” M. said.

M.’s questioning will continue on Monday afternoon. The court booked four days for the trial. On Tuesday, M.’s personal circumstances will be discussed and victim statements will be presented. On Wednesday, the public prosecutors will explain their view of the case and demand a sentence. On Friday, M.’s lawyer will speak and the suspect will have the last word. The ruling is expected on November 27.

Maastricht Univ. shuts down "mindful nest"

after students use meditation space for sex

Maastricht University has decided to remove the Mindfulnest meditation pod from its Arts and Social Sciences faculty after complaints that students were using it to have sex. Some students took the instruction to “Do whatever feels good” on the sign next to the pod too literally, the university newspaper Observant reported.

The Mindfulnest - an almost soundproof cabinet with a bench, some pillows, and a tablet to play soothing sounds - was placed in a lounge where students can study and relax in the spring of 2022.

But due to complaints about students having sex there, many don’t want to use it anymore, calling it “unhygienic,” among other things. The director of the faculty agreed to have the nest removed “as soon as possible,” the university newspaper wrote.

The meditation pod was financed with government money intended to mitigate the consequences of the coronavirus disaster. Because that money is no longer available, it was already scheduled to be removed in March next year.

Maastricht University already had two other Mindfulnest units removed, but a spokesperson stressed that it was for “business reasons” and not because of complaints.

The university will look for alternative ways of offering students opportunities to relax. “We are working on VR glasses for yoga and meditation,” the spokesperson told Observant. “An additional advantage is that it is no longer a closed cubicle, so you know for sure that it is used correctly.”

Do they make pornography for VR yet?

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Trial starts against Dutch woman accused of

enslaving Yazidi women in ISIS caliphate

This week, Hasna A. from Hengelo will stand trial for allegedly enslaving two Yazidi women in the ISIS caliphate in Syria. “It is the first case in the Netherlands in which someone is prosecuted for crimes against the Yazidi community that were committed by ISIS,” lawyer Brechtje Vossenberg, who is representing the victims in this case, told EenVandaag. For security reasons, her clients’ names will not be released.

Hasna A. left for Syria with her disabled son in 2015. She was eventually repatriated by the Dutch government from a prison camp in November 2022 as part of a group of 12 women and their 28 children.

Two Yazidi women who were held in the caliphate have testified that A. enslaved them, forcing them to work in her home and care for her disabled child. “It is charged as a crime against humanity,” Vossenberg told the program. Slavery is punishable in the Netherlands, the lawyer explained. “But the hallmark of a crime against humanity is that the crime is committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population. In this case, that is specifically the ISIS attack against the Yazidi community in northern Iraq in early August.”

During the ISIS genocide on the Yazidi people, thousands of people, mainly men and boys, were slaughtered. “Thousands more, mainly girls, unmarried women, women with children, girls from the age of 9, were captured en masse, enslaved, and transported by ISIS to other parts of Iraq and to Syria,” Vossenberg said. “The entire ISIS policy was aimed at dehumanizing these people. They did whatever they wanted with them: girls and women were enslaved, used as sex slaves or slaves in the household. They have been through an awful lot.”

A. is also being prosecuted for involvement in terrorist crimes and putting a minor in a dangerous position.

Dalal Ghamin (28) grew up in the Yazidi community in the north of Iraq but had to flee from the ISIS violence. She will be following the trial closely. “It is very important to us,” she told EenVandaag. “On the one hand, it is great that someone is finally going to appear before the judge. On the other hand, we think it will only be a few years in prison at most and we do not think that is justified.”

“Everyone has seen how bad it was for us. Thousands of people have been murdered. Over 6,000 women and children were taken and used as slaves. More than half a million people went on the run,” Ghamin said. “There is no right punishment for what they have done.”

There is a 'right punishment' for what they have done, and for those who are not completely repentent, God will ensure that they receive it.

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'Irregular' Foster Homes means dozens of children suffered child abuse in French city; Intellectually challenged Dad goes to prison in NZ; American exchange Student gang-raped in Italy

'Irregular' foster homes under spotlight as

French child abuse court case opens

19 people are due to go on trial this Monday for taking in minors into their custody without authorisation – some of whom were allegedly subjected to physical and psychological abuse, humiliation and forced labor.

What has been described as an “out of the ordinary” trial gets underway in the central French town of Châteauroux this Monday regarding dozens of children who were illegally entrusted by the ASE state social care service to foster facilities – which did not have the proper authorisation – between 2010 and 2017.

Some of the families even had their initial approval withdrawn, following convictions for sexual assault on minors, as revealed by investigative media outlet Médiapart.

In all, dozens of children were entrusted to the “Enfance et Bien-Être” association, where irregular "foster homes" were given compensation amounting to at least €630,000 over seven years.

Some of the minors entrusted to the foster families have told of being exposed to various forms of violence, abuse, drug overdoses, forced labour and regular humiliation.

According to Jean Sannier, one of the civil parties' lawyers: “Some of these children have been enslaved, and we were appalled when we discovered the extent of the case”.

A report was then made to the public prosecutor's office, which uncovered repeated acts of abuse committed between 2010 and 2017.

New Zealand father incited young son & friend

to have sex

Warning: This story deals with the sexual abuse of children, the details of which may be distressing to readers.

Bay of Plenty, North Island, NZ

A father encouraged his 5-year-old son and a 6-year-old girl to undress and pose for photos.

With the children naked, the father would undress too, before taking photos that included close-ups of their genitals. He would give them naked “horsey rides” and take photos of them playing the “games”.

As the children grew older, he began to incite them to perform sexual acts together.

According to a police summary of facts, he told them sex was “a normal part of life for both adults and minors” and he was “instructing” them how to have sex.

The man pleaded guilty to 26 charges related to the offending, which took place over about seven years, and he was sentenced in the Tauranga District Court last week.

The father’s now-adult son told him, through a victim impact statement read at sentencing, that he realised there was nothing “normal” about his experiences.

“You taught me that children should pose for men’s pleasure. You taught me that having sex with your children is normal. You taught me that looking at pornography is normal. None of it was normal, but I thought it was, at least until I was 20.”

The only home the boy had known was one where his father “decided what was right and wrong”.

“You were above the law,” the son said.

His father had moulded him into poses, coerced him into illegal acts and “robbed [him] of [his] ability to be a happy, socially connected child”.

His father had failed to protect him and used violence against his mother, which made it “too difficult” for her to protect him.

“Both people who were solely there to protect me didn’t,” he said.

The son is now in his early 20s and is seeking professional help to deal with his trauma.

The father was sentenced in the Tauranga District Court last week, having pleaded guilty to 26 charges related to abuse of his son and another child. Photo / file

At the end of the day, the man was still his father, he said.

“That’s the hardest thing for me. You broke my family.”

The friend, who was also subject to the most serious offending and is now in her early 20s, said the events of her childhood continued to “impact every area of [her] life.”

“I do not do well socialising as I have a lot of anxiety in leaving my home. My home is my safety and sanctuary.”

When she left home, she needed a chaperone in case she had a panic attack. “I have no trust left for those who say they will protect or look after me, or say they love me.

“It has totally skewed my view of life and relationships, whether they be friendships or romantic.”

The Crown submitted that, though the father hadn’t done any physical touching, he had encouraged the children to do things “far beyond their comprehension or years”.

“It’s because of that the Crown says that, despite the fact he hasn’t engaged directly in the touching, his culpability is really the same,” prosecutor Richard Jenson said.

How the offending came to light

In 2014, the defendant sold a laptop computer to a family friend, deleting images of the children from the device.

However, about 20 photos were recovered and police searched the man’s home.

He told police it had been the children’s idea to take the photographs and said the kissing in the recovered shots was them “having a bit of fun” and was “as far as it goes”.

The children were spoken to by police but didn’t tell them anything else had happened.

The father was “warned” by police about “encouraging his children and their friends to walk around naked and pose for photographs”, and was told that the photos were “objectionable material”.

The matter was then closed.

After that, the father stopped the offending against his son and the friend but began to be “sexually inappropriate” with his daughter and her friend.

He continued to walk around naked at home and encouraged his wife and daughter to do the same.

His daughter, who suffered from nightmares and was between 8 and 14 years old, would sometimes want to sleep in her parents’ bed.

Her father would tell her that she was allowed in only if she took off all her clothes.

He also behaved inappropriately towards her daughter’s friend, watching her undress and touching her breasts and stomach.

The friend said in her victim impact statement that she has suffered post-traumatic stress, nightmares and anxiety.

“I have flashbacks of what occurred, leaving me feeling upset and unsafe, like I’m on a rollercoaster that I can’t get off,” she said.

The offending came to light when the man’s daughter told her school counsellor about his inappropriate behaviour.

Oranga Tamariki visited the home and the daughter was removed while arrangements were made for a specialist interview.

Police then spoke to the son, who was by then in his 20s. He told police he had been violently and sexually assaulted by his father over several years, but it stopped in 2014 when his father was spoken to by police about the images on the laptop.

The son’s disclosure to police revealed the extent of the abuse.

The sentencing

At sentencing, Jenson said that, when it came to finding other cases to use as a guide, there were few available.

“The unique and somewhat disturbing facts of this case aren’t really directly applicable to any of the authorities that we have,” he said.

The aggravating factors included planning and premeditation, which were expressed in the ongoing nature of the offending over a long period.

Jenson said there had been sexualisation of young victims in a family context, and steps taken to arrange opportunities for offending – waiting for the children’s mother to be out of the house, or asking her to leave.

There was also victim vulnerability, given the age of the children.

He said the most serious offending occurred over approximately seven years.

“It involved a significant breach of trust, offending against one’s own children,” Jenson said.

The man’s lawyer, Michael Douglas, said the judge should take into account his client’s limited intellect, which was outlined in reports provided to the court.

While the defence agreed with the Crown’s identified aggravating factors, the approach by the judge should be tempered by “the reality of the intellectual impairment context that’s at play”.

The defence did not accept that the offending was predatory to the extent submitted by the Crown, because of the man’s intellectual disability.

Both the Crown and defence agreed the man should be given a discount to reflect his guilty pleas, with the lawyers acknowledging how much anguish was avoided by the already traumatised victims being spared from giving evidence in a trial.

Judge Melinda Mason adopted a starting point of eight years’ imprisonment for the most serious charges of inciting, abetting or counselling the two children to commit sexual violations against each other.

In giving that starting point, she stated she had taken into account the man’s limited intellect.

She raised that by a year to account for the other offending against the man’s son and his friend, and another six months for the offending against the man’s daughter and her friend.

That resulted in an overall starting point of nine and a half years.

A 20% discount was given for a guilty plea and 15% for the man’s mental health and background, which had included being the victim of sexual abuse in his childhood.

He was jailed for six years and two months.

SEXUAL HARM

Where to get help:

If it's an emergency and you feel that you or someone else is at risk, call 111.

If you've ever experienced sexual assault or abuse and need to talk to someone, contact Safe to Talk confidentially, any time 24/7:

• Call 0800 044 334

• Text 4334

• Email support@safetotalk.nz

• For more info or to web chat visit safetotalk.nz

Alternatively contact your local police station - click here for a list.

If you have been sexually assaulted, remember it's not your fault.

Hannah Bartlett is a Tauranga-based Open Justice reporter at NZME. She previously covered court and local government for the Nelson Mail, and before that was a radio reporter at Newstalk ZB.

American student, 19, allegedly gang-raped

in Italian beach town

A 19-year-old American exchange student was allegedly gang-raped in Italy after going to a party at a beach resort, according to authorities — who are investigating if she was drugged.

The unidentified teen told local police she was attacked in August at the resort in Punta Marina Terme, a town outside Ravenna in northern Italy, Italian outlet Corriera Della Sera reported.

The 19-year-old American exchange student was allegedly gang-raped in Punta Marina Terme (above),

a town outside Ravenna in northern Italy, on Aug. 25. Getty Images

Police have so far questioned two 20-year-old Italian men over the alleged rape but no arrests have been made. Neither has been identified.

Investigators have enlisted help to determine whether the accuser was given a date rape drug before she was allegedly assaulted, according to the outlet.

Child Sex Abuse in the USA > Upstate NY man on $10K bail; Alabama Man forced 10 y/o girl into sex for video games; Clinton monster gets 23 Life Sentences; Mom and Sicko boyfriend trafficking 12 y/o daughter

 

Caledonia man held on $10K bail after being

arrested on multiple child sex abuse charges

• October 13, 2024 6:06 PM / Updated: October 13, 2024 6:06 PM
•  Staff Report
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A Caledonia man is being held on $10,000 bail after allegedly sexually abusing a child.

Brand Augsbury has been accused of sexual conduct against a child, sex abuse, forcible touching, and endangering the welfare of a child.

Authorities in Livingston County didn’t detail the incident or incidents that led to the charges, but the court set bail at $10,000.

He was arraigned and will answer the charges at a later date.

Man repeatedly forced girl to perform sexual acts

before he let her play video games, prosecutors say

By WBRC Digital Staff and Akim Powell

Published: Oct. 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM PDT|Updated: 22 hours ago

ONEONTA, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) -An Alabama man has been convicted after he repeatedly forced a child to perform sexual acts on him in exchange for allowing her to play video games.

In March 2019, a 10-year-old told police that 42-year-old Dustin Lamar Peoples sexually abused her from Aug. 7, 2018 through Christmas of the same year, WBRC reported.

An Alabama man has been convicted after he repeatedly forced a child to perform sexual acts on him in exchange for allowing her to play video games.(Source: Blount Co. Sheriff's Office)

Days later, she was interviewed at the Blount County Children’s Center.

“She was innocent,” said District Attorney Pamela L. Casey. ”She did not know the common words that adults or even teenagers would use to describe what had happened to her. She spoke as a child. As an innocent child. Dustin Peoples stole this child’s innocence.”

A grand jury indicted Dustin Lamar Peoples in Aug. 2019 and he remained out of jail until his trial started this week.

During his trial, prosecutors said that Peoples subjected the child to sexual contact by touching her private parts. They also presented evidence that Peoples forced the girl to perform oral sex on him at least four times.

Prosecutors also Peoples forced the child to perform oral sex on him before he would allow the child to play video games on her game console.

Peoples took the stand in his own defense and denied having any inappropriate contact with the child.

Peoples was found guilty this week on one count each of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12 and sodomy in the first degree.

After the verdict was read, Circuit Judge Greg Reid remanded Peoples to the custody of the Blount County Sheriff’s Department pending sentencing.

Clinton man gets 23 life sentences in sexual assault of children, sex trafficking

The Henry County Circuit Court sentenced a Clinton man to 23 life sentences for 23 counts of sex crimes, including eight counts of sex trafficking, according to prosecutor LaChrisha Gray.

Charges against Derek Brett Roberts, 44, were initially filed in June 2022. Among other things, prosecutors said Roberts filmed himself performing sex acts on children in his home. He was found guilty for all counts by a jury in June 2024.

Charges also include two counts of promoting child pornography, and 13 counts related to sexual assault of a minor. The assaults included rape, sodomy and forcible oral sex, filmed and stored on Roberts’ cellphone, according to court documents. Some of the videos were shown in court.

Court documents show that the majority of Roberts’ victims were under 12 years old. Some were younger than 9.

Roberts attended Samford University in Alabama and was licensed as a pharmacy technician in Missouri, according to court records. He was also previously a licensed pharmacy technician in California.

Roberts was charged after an investigation led by the Drug and Crime Control division Missouri State Highway Patrol, according to a news release from Gray’s office. Investigators searched Roberts’ home and devices, finding the majority of the child pornography on his phone.

Three children, who were not named in court documents due to their age, provided statements to the court about being sexually assaulted by Roberts, according to court records. All three have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, court documents show.

This isn’t Roberts’ first time being convicted of crimes related to child pornography. Roberts pleaded guilty to possessing more than 20 pieces of child pornography in 2021, a case also prosecuted by Gray. He was sentenced to three concurrent sentences of 10 years, to be served in the South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri.

Pleading “not guilty” to child sexual assault

in Fond du Lac County

FOND DU LAC – A Fond du Lac man accused of sexually assaulting and trafficking his girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter pleads not guilty in court.

31-year-old Juan Carlos Rocha Mejia appeared in a Fond du Lac courtroom on Thursday, and entered the plea to four felonies: 1st degree child sexual assault – contact with a child under age 16, child enticement, false imprisonment, and strangulation and suffocation.

The charges come from an incident back in May when Rocha Mejia’s girlfriend 34-year-old Elia Antonio trafficked her daughter to Rocha Mejia, who assaulted the child. She escaped to a neighbor, who then called police.

No additional court information for Rocha Mejia is available yet.

Elia Antonio, the mother of the trafficked child, is due back in court on October 28.

Original Story:

OAKFIELD from May 29, 2024 – A Fond du Lac County mother has been charged with attempting to traffick her 12-year-old daughter earlier this month to the mother’s boyfriend.

A criminal complaint filed Wednesday alleges on May 18th, Elia Antonio drove her daughter from their North Fond du Lac home to the home of 18-year-old Juan Carlos Rocha-Mejia. There, Rocha-Mejia took over the van and drove to a location on Breakneck Road, where he attempted to blindfold the victim and taped her hand to the seat of the van before sexually assaulting her.

After fighting her way out of the van, the victim ran to a nearby home for help.

PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Girl escapes attempted assault in Fond du Lac County

While speaking to investigators, Antonio said she was told by Rocha-Mejia that he “buys people with money”, that he “has cops that work for him”, and not to talk with police because “he has control of everything”. The complaint notes at no point during the May 18th incident did Antonio call 9-1-1.

A search of the van found 272 dollars in U.S. currency.

The victim told investigators another incident involving Rocha-Mejia occurred in December of 2023. According to the complaint, the victim had told Rocha-Mejia about an upcoming field trip which he offered to pay for but then asked “what he would get in exchange” before touching her thigh.

“Sadly, human trafficking exists all over the world, including Fond du Lac County” said Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney. “We will always stand with law enforcement to protect our community from monsters that prey on children and ensure they’re held accountable in the justice system.”

Both Antonio and Mejia are in the United States illegally, and ICE has placed a detainer on both of them.

Antonio is charged with felony trafficking of a child, felony failure to protect a child, and two misdemeanor counts of bail jumping. Rocha-Mejia is charged with felony 1st degree sexual assault, child enticement, false imprisonment, and strangulation & suffocation.

Antonio and Rocha-Mejia are being held on a one million dollar cash bond, and face a combined 161 years in prison if convicted of all charges. They are scheduled for a preliminary hearing on June 7th.