On Monday, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) recommended a four-year prison sentence and mandatory psychiatric treatment against 55-year-old Gerard V., who was in the Philippines perform sexual acts live during online video sessions. The Almelo man was previously convicted of sexually abusing his own daughters, and possessing child sexual abuse content.
He was taken into custody in May 2022 during a traffic check, when an officer more or less accidentally saw an image of child sexual abuse on the suspect's phone. The police found 3,500 photographs of child sexual abuse on seized equipment. Most of it was crude material, sometimes involving very young girls.
The man has been in detention since December. The investigation revealed that V. had been in online contact for years with underage girls in the Philippines, whom he met via Facebook.
V. had contact with over a hundred underage girls, both in the Netherlands and abroad. According to the Public Prosecution Service, these contacts were almost always "sexually tinged.
" He also sent photos of his genitals to girls. V. was busy satisfying his own sexual needs day and night for years, at the expense of children whom he "saw and used as objects of lust," the prosecutor in the latest case said.
He allegedly recorded livestream images, making him guilty of producing child sexual abuse content, the OM said on Monday. By making statements like, "What I did is not worthy of a beauty prize," the prosecutor said V. was also trivializi.