Article from 1998 :
Des enfants violés sur Internet
The Dutch police formed a special investigation unit, made up of fifteen detectives, after the discovery by the Belgian association against pedophilia Morkhoven of thousands of photos of children suffering the worst s***** abuse. These images were distributed on the Internet by a network of pedophiles active in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Israel and the United States.
The investigation led by Morkhoven began last June, the day after the assassination in Pisa (Italy) of a German national operating a computer store in Zandvoort (west of the Netherlands), Gerrit Jan Ulrich. His murderer is a Belgian national, Robert Van Der Plancken, whose name appears in several investigations into pedophilia networks. Ulrich's sister-in-law contacted the Morkhoven association to find out the real reasons for the death of her relative.
The first searches carried out by the Dutch police at Ulrich's home had in fact been botched. “We had no idea that we were dealing with a pedophile network of this magnitude,” a police spokesperson admitted yesterday. Morkhoven activists got their hands on more than 90,000 photos featuring children, some of whom were under 2 years old, from members of the Dutch network. “I have never seen anything so shocking in my long career,” said child psychiatrist Wim Wolters, who saw the disgusting images.
Two women who had tried to destroy evidence at Ulrich's home were arrested by Zandvoort police officers who hope that the Morkhoven association will quickly transmit the images it possesses to them.
340 photos of children aged 10 to 16 years old according to the association, the network would be involved in the disappearance in 1992 of a 12-year-old German boy, Manuel Schadwald, who would have been delivered to pedophiles in brothels in the Countries -Down.
The Belgian police have also just released to all police stations in the kingdom 340 photos of children taken from p****graphic videos filmed in particular in Madeira (Portugal) where a pedophile from Thames (northern Belgium), Norbert D.R., 49, regularly went, linked to the Zandvoort network. Arrested at the end of June, this night receptionist at an Antwerp hotel was in possession of more than 200 video tapes showing child rape. Nine pedophiles residing in the Netherlands have been identified. The 340 photos show European boys aged 10 to 16 being abused on beds, in showers and on beaches. Manuel Schadwald, the missing German boy, is among the boys recognized on the videotapes. Nobody knows if he is still alive.
