None of the families where the suspected babysitter (24) from Tuitjenhorn worked were present at today’s hearing. According to their lawyer Richard Korver, this is because of the media attention. “Children in abuse cases are sometimes treated differently, friends are no longer allowed to play with them: I’ve seen it all.”
Cameramen, ten reporters and a hired court draftsman are all in the hallway this morning, ready to report on the first session with babysitter JF from Tuitjenhorn.
According to the judiciary, he has 21,000 since 2015 child pornographic images in his possession. After ‘viewing’ more than half of the photos and videos, the police investigation team says it found evidence that he abused a victim during his work.
The suspect does not show up today, but some new information has been released. Would be the man about fantasies with children have had Whatsapp contact with other people and may also have committed sexual acts on animals.
It also appears that so far one family has filed a report against the 24-year-old. There is a suspicion of abuse from another family, but the judiciary has apparently not yet found any evidence for this.
Those families were not there today either. “It was impossible to have those people come anonymously to this small court. We asked if something could be arranged, but unfortunately,” their lawyer Richard Korver responds to NH after the hearing.
“You then get: oh that’s one of those babysitters from Schagen”
He has already acted in many major cases – the sexual abuse of an employee of Amsterdam crèches Robert M., for example – and is chairman of a foundation for sex victims.
According to him, it is very important that possible victims in this case remain anonymous. “Unfortunately it is still the case that if a child is abused, a finger is pointed, a sticker is placed on his head.”
In addition to the fact that there are already online reactions from people who, for example, find it incomprehensible that parents find a babysitter via Marktplaats – or even describe a male babysitter as ‘asking for problems’, Korver also sees that in the immediate vicinity of victims how people behave differently. to behave.
“Parents, teachers, trainers, people at school, at the sports club. Oh that’s one of that babysitter from Schagen, you get. I was once called by a client that her child was no longer allowed to play with his best friend by the parents. Heartbreaking. Very distressing.”
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The victim lawyer also says that people sometimes immediately link the behavior of children to the abuse. “If he or she is acting nervous, it’s probably because of that. While he might just have to take a swim the next day or something.”
Whether this Babysitting business has the same proportions as the ‘Amsterdam vice case‘ is still difficult to say, he says. “We don’t know. Not all images have been analyzed yet,” said Korver, who asked the court today to inspect the file.
He hopes that the media will be cautious about details about the case. “It’s really stigmatizing. And I don’t want them to go through life like that.”
Possibly more arrests
In the coming period, the detectives will view other images of the suspect JF, but will also read through 3,000 chats on his telephone. A co-suspect from Alkmaar has already been arrested for possession of child pornography, but more arrests may follow.
There is therefore no prospect of a substantive treatment of the case for the time being. Justice wants the babysitter in the Pieter Baan Center to be examined for his psyche. His lawyer has stated that he does not want to participate in this.