Overview

• The case file cites 18 girls who were physically abused and others for whom image recordings were primarily made, according to the Public Prosecution Service.
• Reporting details alleged offenses at a camping site in Hoeven, where girls stayed over in the suspect’s caravan, were sometimes drugged, abused, and filmed, and where he allegedly used his own children as bait.
• Parents using the pseudonyms Suzanne and Henk say their daughter was abused at age nine in 2019 and twice in 2021, and that investigators found extensive photo and video material bearing her name.
• At a pro-forma hearing the suspect offered an apology, which the parents rejected as insincere, describing his courtroom demeanor as cynical.
• Prosecutors are preparing a six-day substantive hearing and have declined to elaborate on the full scope of alleged camping offenses, underscoring the central role of seized images in the evidence.