CHILDREN
IN THE NEW
WORLD ORDER
Marc Dutroux
Ran An
International Pedophile and Child Porn Ring
He was protected by Belgian police and politicians.
Belgium is Israeli Organized Crime's
European Headquarters For Human Sex Trafficking
Belgium has a population of about 10,000,000, of which only 40,000 are Jewish.
These Two 8 Year Olds Were Used In A Snuff Video
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The government removed a key judge and halted Dutroux's trial.
Dutroux Had Seven Houses
Throughout Belgium
His ring kidnapped kids all over Europe
and brought them to his houses
Dutroux's Organization Held
Weekend Orgies
For Politicians And Police Officials
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This Is The Russian/Israeli Organatzia Everyone Fears
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PEDOPHILE CASE JUDGE
BREAKS DOWN IN COURT
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Arlon, Belgium
March 6, 2004
The Belgian judge who
saved two young girls from Marc Dutroux's pedophile dungeon has broken down in
the witness box, alleging high-level murder plots to stop his investigation into
a child-sex mafia.
Jean-Marc Connerotte was in tears on the fourth day of the trial on Thursday,
describing the bullet-proof vehicles and armed guards needed to protect him
against shadowy figures determined to stop the full truth coming out.
"Never before in Belgium has an investigating judge at the service of the king
been subjected to such pressure," he said.
"We were told by police that
(murder) contracts had been taken out against the magistrates.
As the danger mounted, emergency measures were taken." He then froze in silence
and the court was adjourned until he recovered.
He said "organised crime methods" were used to discredit his work and ensure his
inquiries ended in "judicial failure".
A hero to millions of Belgians, Judge Connerotte was removed from the Dutroux
case after he had dinner with families of the victims in October 1996: this was
deemed a conflict of interest.
The move resulted in workers going on strike and
300,000 people marching silently through Brussels
in protest.
Seven years later, some of the families are boycotting the trial, describing it
as a circus and saying the inquiry effectively shut down the moment Judge
Connerotte left.
Addressing the jury of 12 at the Arlon Palais de Justice, Judge Connerotte
relived the moment in August 1996 when his team rescued Sabine Dardenne, 12, and
Laetitia Delhez, 14, from the cage beneath Dutroux's house.
He said the girls recoiled into the cell when the heavy hidden door was pulled
open, fearing that a pedophile "band" had come to get them.
As Dutroux coaxed them out, saying there was nothing to fear, they clutched on
to him as their protector. Sabine had been held for 79 days, much of the time
chained by the neck.
Dutroux admitted this week he had raped her 20 times. He
said the plan was to hand her over to the criminal network, but he kept her
because he was "depressed".
Judge Connerotte said Dutroux displayed a "frightening professionalism" in
designing the secret cells. "Clearly they were built so they couldn't be found,"
he said.
"He had installed a ventilation system so that the odours were extracted from
above. The dogs couldn't smell the presence of the young girls."
He castigated local authorities
for failing to take action much earlier. Dutroux had been named in police files
in July 1995 as a suspect in the abduction of two eight-year-old girls more than
a year before their bodies were found on Dutroux's land.
"The sum of 150,000 francs ($A6000) was mentioned as the price for girls. I was
struck by the richness of these documents. Any magistrate should have acted the
way I did later," he said.
The girls apparently starved to
death in the dungeon while Dutroux was in prison.
In January 1996, Judge Connerotte wrote to King Albert alleging his
investigations into crime networks were being blocked because
suspects "apparently enjoyed serious
protection".
He went on to say that the "dysfunctional judiciary" was breaking down as
mafia groups took secret control
of the "key institutions of the country".
- Telegraph
CHILD RAPIST DENIES KIDNAP, MURDER CHARGES
March 4, 2004
Convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux denied kidnapping and killing two young girls found buried in his garden, saying he kept them in a dungeon to protect them from a child sex ring.
The Belgian took the stand yesterday on the third day of his trial for a string of gruesome paedophile murders in the mid-1990s that traumatised the nation and discredited its police and judiciary.
"I didn't want this to happen to them," the 47-year-old former electrician told the court under questioning by presiding judge Stephane Goux.
A convicted multiple child rapist, Dutroux is charged with the abduction and rape of six girls and the murder of four.
In testimony at times rambling and contradictory, he told the jury that all the crimes of which he was accused were carried out by a criminal gang based in the city of Charleroi, which had enjoyed "police and political protection".
The last two victims survived his arrest in 1996 and were found in a makeshift cell in a cellar to which he had built a concealed door in a house in Marcinelle, southern Belgium.
Dutroux denied any involvement in the kidnapping and death of eight-year-olds Julie and Melissa, the first two girls to be abducted in July 1995, telling the court he had found them at his home with his wife and two other men - Michel Nihoul and Bernard Weinstein.
Asked by the judge why he had built the trap door to the cell, in which the girls were held for months, he said: "I wanted to create a hiding place to spare them from being sent to a prostitution ring."
He accused co-defendant Nihoul, as well as Weinstein, a Frenchman found buried in Dutroux's garden in 1996, of planning to use the children for prostitution.
"When I learned from Bernard Weinstein that it was for paedophilia, I didn't even know what paedophilia was. It was all Chinese to me," Dutroux told the court.
Asked why he had not denounced his accomplices sooner, he said: "I didn't want to endanger my family."
He spoke about his childhood and career, depicting himself as the victim of an authoritarian mother.
Asked why he had changed his testimony so often during nearly seven years in custody, he said it was to protect his ex-wife, Michelle Martin, on trial with him.
"My statements were full of lies," he said, while insisting that this time he would tell "the whole truth".
Dutroux had sought to fan conspiracy theories that he was just a cog in a bigger machine by telling VTM Flemish television on the eve of the trial that he was a scapegoat for a mafia network involved in trafficking children.
Defence lawyers, outlining their case, evoked satanic cults, mysteriously deceased witnesses and forensic evidence of the presence of other people in Dutroux's cells as evidence that their client was not a "lone pervert".
The prosecution says investigators have found no evidence of such a wider conspiracy, although a parallel probe into the allegations is continuing.
Lawyers for the victims called the defence strategy a "smokescreen" and appealed to Dutroux to tell the truth about crimes that Belgians have struggled to comprehend.
The trial is expected to last at least two months. Dutroux, who was jailed in 1989 for a series of violent rapes, including on minors, faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
In their indictment, prosecutors described Dutroux as a manipulator who saw himself as a victim of a hateful society.
"In his mind, all social rules are perfectly recognised, but they are either rejected as being unacceptably constraining, or used for his own beneit," the indictment said.
It was not until August 13, 1996, four years after the disappearances began, that authorities arrested Dutroux, along with his wife (an elementary school teacher), a lodger, a policeman, and a man the Guardian described as “an associate with political connections” – elsewhere identified as Jean-Michel Nihoul, a Brussels businessman and nightclub owner. One of those taken into custody - Michel Lelievre, described in a May 2002 BBC report as a “drug addict and petty thief” - reportedly told his interrogators that at least some of the girls abducted by the ring “were kidnapped to order, for someone else.” This was just one of many statements by suspects and witnesses that would later be dismissed by Belgian officials.
Outrage continued to grow as more arrests were made and evidence of high-level government and police complicity continued to emerge. One of Dutroux's accomplices, businessman Jean-Michel Nihoul, confessed to organizing an ‘orgy’ at a Belgian chateau that had been attended by government officials, a former European Commissioner, and a number of law enforcement officers. A Belgian senator noted, quite accurately, that such parties were part of a system “which operates to this day and is used to blackmail the highly placed people who take part.”
According to the BBC, Nihoul has brazenly claimed: “I am the monster of Belgium.” He has all but dared the state to prosecute him, claiming that he is beyond the reach of the law because he has information that, if made public, “would bring the Government and the entire state down.”
In September 1996, twenty-three suspects - at least nine of whom were police officers - were detained and questioned about their possible complicity in the crimes and/or their negligence in investigating the case. As the Los Angeles Times noted in a very brief, two-sentence report, the detainments “were the latest indication that police in the southern city of Charleroi may have helped cover up the alleged crimes of Marc Dutroux.” The arrests followed raids on the police officers’ homes and on the headquarters of the Charleroi police force and were based on information supplied by police inspector Georges Zicot, who had already been charged as an accomplice. Three magistrates had also reportedly been interrogated by police investigators.
Louf identified Michel Nihoul as a regular organizer of ‘parties.’ These parties, she said, “not only involved sex, they included sadism, torture and murder.” She described in detail the murdered victims, and how and where they were killed.
The bodies of seven children were believed to have been hidden by the ring, which was thought could be linked to Dutroux through Michel Nihoul. Two months after that, a man named Patrick Derochette and three of his family members were arrested following the discovery of the body of a nine-year-old girl.
.” The ring was also said by the Times to offer what were cryptically referred to as “custom-made videos” for the hefty price of $5,000 each.
June 23, 2004
Dutroux trial sentencing
Sentence has been passed in the Belgian "trial of the century" of the pedophile child murderer Marc Dutroux and his accomplices. Dutroux was sentenced to life in prison plus 10 years "internment at the government's pleasure" --- a measure intended to block his being paroled. His mate and accomplice Michelle Martin got 30 years in prison, as requested by the prosecution. Another accomplice, Lelièvre, got 25 years, 5 less than requested by the prosecution. Peculiarly, the enigmatic alleged ringleader Michel Nihoul was only sentenced to 5 years in prison, despite requests by the prosecution that no sentence less than 10 years be pronounced.
My own sentencing would have spared society the expense of guarding and caring for the inmates, except Nihoul, whose life I might offer to spare in exchange for turning state's witness.
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Timeline: Dutroux
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paedophile Marc Dutroux, 47, is on trial for the murder of four young girls.
The bodies of two teenage girls, An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks, and two
eight-year-olds, Melissa Russo and Julie Lejeune, were found buried at
properties belonging to him. Mr Dutroux, on trial with three others, has
denied killing the girls, but admitted to kidnapping and rape.
24 June 1995: Eight-year-olds Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo disappear near their home in Grace-Hollogne, east Belgium. 23 August 1995: An Marchal, 17, and Eefje Lambrecks, 19, go missing during a holiday at the seaside town of Ostend. 6 December 1995: Mr Dutroux is arrested on car theft and other charges. He is convicted and spends nearly four months in prison. 28 May 1996: Sabine Dardenne, 12, disappears while riding her bike to school in the town of Kain, south-west Belgium. 9 August 1996: Laetitia Delhez, 14, disappears after leaving a swimming pool in her home town of Bertrix, south-east Belgium. 13 August 1996: Mr Dutroux, his ex-wife Michelle Martin and Michel Lelievre are detained in Sars-la-Buissiere, south Belgium. 15 August 1996: Mr Dutroux leads police to makeshift cell in house in Charleroi suburb of Marcinelle where Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez are found alive. Both have been drugged and sexually abused. 16 August 1996: Mr Dutroux admits kidnapping An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks. Fourth suspect Michel Nihoul is detained. 17 August 1996: Mr Dutroux admits killing suspected accomplice Bernard Weinstein and takes police to the bodies of Julie Lejeune, Melissa Russo and Weinstein buried in the backyard of a Sars-la-Buissiere house. 3 September 1996: Police find remains of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks under a garden shed at Weinstein's house in Charleroi suburb of Jumet. 20 October 1996: Some 300,000 people march on Brussels in support of victims' families and to protest against the authorities for the bungled investigation into missing girls. 9 April 1997: Parliamentary interim report into the Dutroux case finds police "inhumane, inept, inefficient and ill-equipped" and lists blunders and rivalry during probe. 23 April 1998: Mr Dutroux escapes custody during a court visit but is swiftly recaptured. Belgium's police chief, justice minister and interior minister resign. 1 March 2004: Trial begins in town of Arlon. Trial: Key moments 4 March 2004: Jean-Marc Connerotte, who led the initial investigation, testifies. 18 March 2004: A key to a pair of handcuffs is found near Mr Dutroux's prison cell, hidden in a bag of salt in a kitchen. The keys fit Mr Dutroux's cuffs. 19 April 2004: Sabine Dardenne appears in court and gives dramatic testimony against her abuser - asking him why he did not kill her. 20 April 2004: Laetitia Delhez takes the stand, describing how she was chained to a bed and raped after being abducted. 27 April 2004: The court and the two surviving victims, Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez, visit the cell where the girls were imprisoned. 24 May 2004: The lawyers for both sides begin making their final arguments. 10 June 2004: Mr Dutroux makes a final appeal to the court in which he says he is not a murderer. 14 June 2004: The jury retires to consider its verdict. 17 June 2004:
Dutroux convicted of murder and leading a child kidnap gang.
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How Belgium is worse than just a pushover
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Perfidy, thy name is Belgium. The same
goes for treachery, deceit, ungratefulness, betrayal, and shameful behavior.
There are many countries whose governments are horrible and in need of
change (see "Onward American Soldiers," Indy 11/7/02) but there are few
nations whose society, people and government are so horrifying as to be
nearly irredeemable. This fact was brought to my mind by the recent move by
Belgium to leave Turkey defenseless in the face of Iraqi aggression. But
Belgium has been perfidious throughout its 173-year history.
Belgium no sooner became independent
than it hurried to catch up with the other European powers in acquiring an
empire. Leopold II sent a shifty character named Henry Stanley to secure
what was then called the "Kongo" for Belgium. Stanley's method, in the words
of one historian, "when meeting a new chief, was to attach a buzzer to his
hand which was linked to a battery. When the chief shook hands with Stanley
he got a mild electric shock. This device convinced the chiefs that Stanley
had superhuman powers. The agreements allowed the Belgians into the Congo to
take its rich natural resources."
Belgium is considered
Jewry's European headquarters for
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Dutroux also claimed two policemen took part in the August, 1995 kidnapping of the two teens, An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks.
He said their abduction was carried out by himself, a drug-addict friend who is also on trial, and two other men.
"I later found out they were members of the police force," he told the court, without identifying them.
He said one of the officers and his heroin-addict accomplice, Michel Lelievre, had raped one of the young women after they were kidnapped while on holiday near the Belgian coastal town of Ostende.
Belgian found guilty in sex crimes case
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-06-18 09:10
Marc Dutroux, Belgium's most reviled man, was found guilty Thursday of kidnapping and raping six girls, killing two of them and causing the death of two others, after a trial that gripped the country for months.
After three days of deliberations, the jury found the man described by experts as a self-absorbed psychopath guilty on all counts for crimes that shocked the country in 1996.
Dutroux, 47, faces life in prison.
The crimes, which included the death by starvation of two girls in a basement dungeon in Dutroux's house near the southern city of Charleroi, have haunted the country for years.
Not only did they make Belgium synonymous with pedophilia in the world's eyes, they also raised questions in people's minds about the possible complicity of police and politicians.
The bungled investigation into the missing girls, who were between the ages of eight and 19, led many Belgians to believe Dutroux worked under the protection of a child sex ring whose members included influential people.
In his testimony, Dutroux played on this, describing himself as a reluctant accomplice who supplied girls to a mysterious ring to save his own life.
Despite allusions to police helping kidnap girls and suggestions the ring had ties to a Satanic cult, Dutroux and his lawyers failed to produce evidence to support their claims.
RELIEF AND TEARS
During a brief recess in Thursday's proceedings, members of the victims' families came out of the courtroom expressing relief at the verdicts on Dutroux and the two co-defendants.
"I am happy," a smiling Paul Marchal told local television. "They are guilty for everything that they have done."
His daughter, An, and her friend Eefje Lambrecks were kidnapped while on vacation on the coast in 1995. Their bodies were dug up in the backyard of a house near Charleroi after Dutroux's 1996 arrest.
The grandmother of Julie -- kidnapped when she was eight and found dead in the basement of Dutroux's house with her friend Melissa -- wept for joy on the steps of the courthouse.
"I vowed on my little girl's coffin that I would seek revenge," said Jeanine Lejeune. "My revenge has come. I hadn't realized that I would be so relieved."
The jury found two co-defendants, Dutroux's ex-wife Michelle Martin and Michel Lelievre, guilty of similar charges.
But the 12 jury members were divided on the guilt of a third co-defendant, businessman Michel Nihoul, and the judges sided with the minority, leading to his acquittal on charges of conspiracy and kidnapping.
The jury also found Nihoul -- accused by Dutroux of being the mastermind behind the crimes -- not guilty on charges of being an accomplice, but guilty of masterminding a gang involved in drugs and human trafficking.
"I was especially relieved that Nihoul was found guilty of leading a gang, and also on human trafficking," Marchal said.
Georges-Henri Beauthier, a lawyer for Laetitia Delhez, one of two victims who survived, was only partly satisfied.
"It's ... not totally satisfying because Nihoul was an important element, but he will have 20 years which is satisfying because Dutroux was clearly not acting alone," he said.
Nihoul has always denied any wrongdoing.
The co-defendants could each get more than 20 years.
Dutroux stared resolutely at the table, scribbling on a piece of paper, whenever his crimes were mentioned when the jury's verdict was read in public.
The debate on the sentencing will start Monday with the prosecutor, defense lawyers and defendants reacting to the verdict in this southeast Belgian town near Luxembourg.
Dutroux had admitted kidnapping and raping some of the girls but denied killing any of them, blaming other defendants for their deaths.
Sabine Dardenne with Marie-Therese Cuny Virago
What you see here on the book cover is eminently what you get: Sabine Dardenne is photographed holding a photograph of herself at 12 - the age when she was dragged from her bike as she was cycling to school, bundled into a van, imprisoned in a hidden concrete cell, drugged, starved and continually, relentlessly raped, for nearly three months.
The two faces make you think: about innocence, childhood, vulnerability. The little girl in the photo-within-a-photo is smiling broadly, her white teeth all childishly uneven: she is a very young 12. The little face is cheeky, sparky; the eyes bright and open, head slightly cocked to one side.
The young woman holding the framed picture gazes steadily out at the reader. The eyes and mouth that seemed too large in the child's face have moved into proportion. The hands that cradle the picture frame are long, beautifully manicured and confidently wearing chunky silver rings. She holds the picture of the child-Sabine protectively close to her chest. It is a photograph of rare power: dignified and poignant beyond telling. For this is a book that makes you consider experiences that defy language.
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Her account is a steely challenge to her
May 1993: Police did search one of Dutroux's homes on no less than three separate occasions over the course of the investigation. On at least two of those occasions, two of the missing girls were being held in heinous conditions imprisoned in a custom-built dungeon in the basement. Nevertheless, the police searches came up empty, despite the fact that the investigating officers reported “hearing children's voices on one occasion,” according to the Guardian.
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Marc Dutroux is one of the most
notorious criminals in Belgium.
He was
arrested in 1996, and charged with abduction of six girls (Julie Lejeune (8),
Mélissa Russo (8), An Marchal (19), Eefje Lambrecks (17), Sabine Dardenne (12)
and Laetitia Delhez (14)), in 1995 and 1996, sexually abusing them and causing
death to four of them.
Sabine and Laetitia were found alive in his home in Marcinelle near Charleroi
(Hainaut) shortly after his arrest; they had been kept imprisoned three months
and one week, respectively.
Julie and Mélissa were found dead
in
the garden of another house of Dutroux, in Sars-la-Buissière (Hainaut). Their
death was caused by neglect, they were locked up while Dutroux was in prison
earlier, during 4 months from December 1995, and his accomplices failed to feed
them.
An and Eefje were found dead in Jumet
(Hainaut).
His trial will start in March 2004; in the meantime he serves sentences for
lesser crimes. Among them was an escape from custody in 1998; he was caught a
few hours later.
Authorities have been criticized for various errors related to his case, for
example:
The house in which Julie and Mélissa were kept in a
specially constructed secret basement
was searched by the police while they were
still alive, but the police did not find them. This was due to the fact that the
search was on the pretext of being related to theft; therefore no dogs or
special equipment for finding the girls could be used.
It was considered a blunder that one of the most notorious criminals in
Belgium could escape during a transfer; it was felt that he should have been
better guarded.
In 2003 Sabine Dardenne gave her first interview to the press (at age 19). She
stated that, based on her observations, she thinks that Dutroux acted alone, as
opposed to certain speculations that
he was part of a criminal network in which even high
officials might be involved.
Profile: Marc Dutroux http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3522367.stm
Mr Dutroux was sentenced in 1989 to 13 years for abduction and rape |
Marc Dutroux, who stands accused of child killings in Belgium, has a criminal record going back 25 years.
In 1979, Mr Dutroux received the first of a series of convictions for theft, violent muggings, drug-dealing and trading in stolen cars.
Sexual crimes came later - in 1986, Mr Dutroux and his then-wife Michelle Martin were arrested for the abductions and rape of five girls, for which they were both imprisoned.
His own mother wrote to the prison director to warn about her son.
Evidence emerging over the past weeks suggests that Dutroux and his associates'
activities spread across Europe. Michelle Martin, Dutroux's wife, is known to have spent a lot of time out of the country. Michel Bourlet, the prosecutor leading the investigation into the pedophile ring, has confirmed that he is contacting police forces across Europe. Michelle Hirsch, a lawyer stated that:
"Child pornography and prostitution is an international business.
Traffickers buy children from poor families in Asia and with the co-operation of police and corrupt officials they arrange for their transport across international borders."
"A key reason for the increasing demand is that larger
numbers of sex tourists specifically request children." Girls and boys as young
as 6 hang out at gas stations, bus stops, and supermarkets on the Czech side of
the border, says the report, written by a German social worker who says she has
identified around 500 children prostituting themselves.
Rome, Italy -- Italian and Russian police, working together, broke up a ring of Jewish gangsters who had been involved in the manufacture of child rape and snuff pornography.
Three Russian Jews and eight Italian Jews were arrested after police discovered they had been kidnapping non-Jewish children between the ages of two and five years old from Russian orphanges, raping the children, and then murdering them on film. Mostly non-Jewish customers, including 1700 nationwide, 600 in Italy, and and unknown number in the United States, paid as much as $20,000 per film to watch little children being raped and murdered.
Jewish officials in a major Italian news agency tried to cover the story up, but were circumvented by Italian news reporters, who broadcasts scenes from the films live at prime time on Italian television to more than 11 million Italian viewers. Jewish officials then fired the executives responsible, claiming they were spreading "blood libel."
Throughout history, various groups have accused sects of Jews of ritually murdering small children. One such account, that of Hugh of Lincoln, led to the expulsion of all Jews from Britain in the 13th Century. Such accounts have generally been discounted, but are so wide spread that Jewish organizations have developed a name for them -- "blood libel".
The American group the ADL was founded to defend a Jew, Leo Frank, accused of raping and murdering a twelve year old girl, Mary Phagan, in his Atlanta pencil factory in 1913. The ADL claims he was innocent. A mob lynched him after the governor commuted his death sentence to life in prison.
Though AP and Reuters both ran stories on the episode, US media conglomerates refused to carry the story on television news, again saying the story would prejudice Americans against Jews.to traffic in "white slaves" and prostitutes through Israel, according to a recent report in the Jerusalem Post. Israel turns an official blind eye to forced prostitution, and does not punish Israeli citizens who choose to own "sex slaves", as long as the slaves are foreign and non-
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Amnesty: Israel failing to deal with white-slave trade By Dan Izenberg and Heidi J. Gleit JERUSALEM (May 19) - Israel has failed to take adequate measures against human rights abuses of women who have been brought here and forced to provide sexual services, Amnesty International charged. "This is so," a special Amnesty report on the trafficking of women from the former Soviet Union said, "even though many of them have been subjected to human rights abuses such as enslavement or torture, including rape and other forms of sexual abuse, by traffickers, pimps, or others involved in Israel's sex industry." Amnesty International also criticized Israel for not providing a procedure to grant asylum to women who have been smuggled into the country often on the basis of false promises of work having nothing to do with sex. Fighting the trade in women and bringing foreign women here to work as prostitutes is a priority for the Israel Police, but it is a very difficult phenomenon to fight, police investigations head Cmdr. Yossi Sedbon said yesterday. One of the main problems is that there is not a law against selling women, he explained, adding that he is aware of the initiatives to pass such a law and hopes they are successful. Justice Minister Yossi Beilin told Amnesty International representatives yesterday that Deputy Attorney-General Yehudit Karp is preparing an amendment to the Penal Law which would address the trafficking phenomenon and provide immunity for trafficked women. He predicted that the legislation would be presented to the Knesset at its winter session. According to Amnesty International, hundreds of women are brought to Israel from the former Soviet Union every year. According to Amnesty International, Israel is bound by international law and by international covenants that it has signed to stamp out the sex trafficking. Police are arresting suspects on related charges such as kidnapping, pimping, raping, and assaulting the women, Sedbon said. The other major problem is that the women are scared to file police complaints and testify against the pimps, he said. Since most of them are in the country illegally, they are scared to approach police. Fear of reprisal by the pimps further paralyzes them. Police try to get around this both by promising to protect complainants and by initiating operations to collect evidence against and raid brothels, he said. An additional complication is that prosecutors need the women who complain to testify in the court cases against the pimps, which can be months after the initial complaint is filed. Since the women are here illegally and there is a chance that the pimps will harm them if they are left to their own devices here, they have often ended up sitting in jail until the trial is completed. Sedbon said that they now try to send the women home and bring them back here for the trial. Sedbon declined to comment on the complaints filed against Afula police chief Ch.-Supt. Shlomo Marmelstein and Tel Aviv police chief Cmdr. Shlomo Aharonishky for not acting against the problem, saying he could not comment on specific cases. Sedbon emphasized that the issue is a priority for police and that each police district's serious crimes division is dealing with the problem. Statistics police released earlier this year show an increase in the number of cases opened against pimps: 279 in 1997; 370 in 1998; and 506 in 1999. Sedbon also said that only a minority of the foreign women working here as prostitutes are kidnapped and forced into prostitution. |
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Dutroux victim confronts abuser
Sabine Dardenne told the court she tried to escape |
In a hushed court, Sabine Dardenne asked him: "Why did you not kill me?" She was 12 when he held her captive for 80 days at his home in 1996.
The 47-year-old ex-electrician replied that he had no intention of doing so.
Mr Dutroux admits to abduction and rape charges - but denies involvement in the deaths of four girls.
Ms Dardenne is the first of two girls rescued from a cell in Mr Dutroux's basement to address the court in the southern Belgian town of Arlon.
BBC correspondent Allan Little in Arlon says that during her dramatic testimony she was composed and mature - answering questions very clearly and unambiguously.
The other survivor, Laetitia Delhez, is due to testify on Tuesday.
'Room of agony'
Ms Dardenne, who is now 20, told the court on Monday that at one point she tried to escape by forcing the cell door open.
But she said Mr Dutroux was so angry when he found out that she never tried again.
Turning directly to face Mr Dutroux in the courtroom, she asked: "I would like to know, coming from the man who complained that I was pigheaded, why he didn't kill me."
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KIDNAPPED GIRLS
Julie Lejeune, 8, allegedly starved Melissa Russo, 8, allegedly starved An Marchal, 17, buried in garden Eefje Lambrecks, 19, buried in garden Sabine Dardenne, then aged 12 - survived Laetitia Delhez, then aged 14 - survived |
She also said Mr Dutroux was the only man she saw throughout her captivity and the only person who abused her.
Mr Dutroux told the court that he recognised he had abused Ms Dardenne, saying he took "responsibility for that".
"I acknowledge my mistakes. I acknowledge that I abused her. But for me there was never any question of killing her," he said.
Ms Dardenne also asked Mr Dutroux's ex-wife, Michelle Martin, why she as a mother stood by and allowed the abuse to happen.
Ms Martin replied she did not expect Ms Dardenne to forgive the unforgivable.
Ms Dardenne and Ms Delhez were released when Mr Dutroux led police to his basement after his arrest.
Last week, the court heard details of letters written by Ms Dardenne to her family while she was held captive.
In the letters, which she was promised would be sent but never were, she described what she called "the room of agony" and said she did not think she would ever see her family again.
'Conspiracy' claims
Mr Dutroux is on trial with three others, including his ex-wife, over abductions, rapes and murders of girls in the mid-1990s.
Eight-year-olds Melissa Russo and Julie Lejeune died as captives in Mr Dutroux's home.
Two teenagers, An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks, were murdered. Mr Dutroux blames his co-defendants for their deaths.
Many Belgians hope the trial may provide answers to broader questions - such as why it took so long to catch Mr Dutroux and whether he was part of a larger paedophile ring, as he claims.
Our correspondent says Ms Dardenne's testimony that Mr Dutroux was the only man who abused her would seem to give the lie to claims of a wider conspiracy.
More than 400 witnesses are expected to give evidence in the trial, which is expected to last until June.
Reproduced from the
Part
II of "Satanic Concubines" Page:
"Judy Chase"
Franklin Cover-Up:
Pedophile Conspiracy
The Gunderson Report:
Child Sexual Abuse
Satanism, Sex Crimes,
and Consequences
- Sex Experiments of Alfred Kinsey
Subject:
The CIA, Children & Mind-Control:
JOHN RAPPAPORT
Mind
Control Slavery and the New World Order
from NEXUS magazine
Daddy's
Little Princess:
JonBenét Ramsey & The Air In Colorado