Fred K. (46) from Boekel abused his niece and his own daughter for years, but when they became too old, his need did not stop. He looked for new girls online. Photos and videos of at least 43 children were found on his computer. And they went very far.
Two of the victims are Inge’s daughters. On December 6, the police suddenly showed up at her door. She was shocked and initially thought her husband had had an accident. But no, they were people from the vice squad.
Inge: “They were investigating Fred K., they said. Images of our daughters were found on his computer and it turned out that he had been in contact with our daughters for months. Their story hit home hard.”
“A guy on Snapchat showed ‘his thing’.”
Afterwards, some of the puzzle pieces fall together for Inge. “It was in the summer of 2022. My daughters were 8 years old at the time. We had a birthday party and the kids, nieces and nephews were all upstairs. Then one of them came down and said some guy had shown ‘his thing’ on Snapchat. Unfortunately, we could not see any of this and immediately deleted Snapchat, so that they could no longer use it. That was it for us.”
However, investigation revealed that the ‘thing’ at the birthday party had not been a one-off. Fred K. had been in contact with the girls for about three months. “The children never said anything out of shame and fear. It probably started with one person and because they are always together, the other one also got involved.”
Fred seduced the girls into undressing and doing sexual things. With objects and together and he secretly made recordings of them. “In the end, our daughters told us everything. They were interrogated by the police on January 10 and now we have to wait and see.”
“In retrospect, very naive,” Inge muses some more. “We actually didn’t want them to be on Snapchat at such a young age. But yes, friends and nieces and nephews are also on it, so you can easily keep in touch. We had of course warned them to only have contact with friends and not with strangers.”
The annoying thing about Snapchat, Inge thinks, is that strangers can simply request contact. “Those girls were curious and accepted such a person. Fred K. pretended to be a boy aged 14 to 16 and used a fake photo.
“The girls were scared and didn’t dare refuse him anything.”
You can also see someone’s location on Snapchat. When the chat between the girls and Fred K. went from normal to sexually explicit, they said they would block him because their parents did not allow this. But then Fred K. threatened that ‘he would come by if they said anything to us. And that he was going to do something to their mother. Those girls got scared and didn’t dare to refuse him anything. They didn’t dare say anything to us because they were afraid we would get angry. So that’s how he works.”
“I’m constantly working on it. My daughters are now ten years old and in sixth grade. My one daughter talks about it, but the other doesn’t talk about it at all. They are both receiving professional help.”
Last Monday there was another interim hearing in the case of Fred K. It became clear that the justice department is almost finished with the investigation. After another interim hearing in May, the case would be dealt with substantively in the summer and a sentence would follow.
The name Inge is not the mother’s real name.
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During the last hearing it became clear that Fred K. also abused quite a few girls online