Can't seem to find my tiny violin

[LlamaNoDrama]

Why are sky even giving him airspace

news.sky.com/story/child-rapist-beach-volleyball-player-steven-van-de-velde-admits-he-nearly-quit-paris-olympics-13196834

There's a pic of him crying!

Jesus! I wonder how many crimes have gone unpunished over the years due to that appallingly blinkered definition of rape?!

I’d pay good money to see him put in the boxing ring against the Algerian gold medal boxer.

Just when you think you've heard it all from the depths....

The surfaces another.

I couldn't give a shiney shite if you nearly quit. I do give a shit about the young girl whose life was ruined.

Ahah! I found it

I am so going to be flamed, but this is a touch over the top.

Yes what he did was wrong. But there is a large difference between a sadistic child sexual abuser and a teenager who made an error of judgement (albeit serious). Reading about the case, it seems to be non-violent satutory rape. And as for grooming, the victim initially said she was 16.

His own country has judged that he has been sufficiently punished. He can have a life equal to others. That includes marrying who he likes (or who wants to marry him), having a career and having a child.

People seem to relish denigrating him. He was probably hoping his child would never find out, or could be told at an appropriate time/age. That would impossible now. Also the victim in this case would very probably never of heard of him in the Olympics, if such a fuss had not been made.

This argument about caring about either his child or the victim seems to be ill-thought through. Nuance and empathy instead of raging on the Internet.

I know, men beating up women and even nonces can compete. Surely the IOC aren't ever going to be seen in a good light for allowing this bullshit to stand

The poor victim. Imagine someone raping you as a child and then seeing themselves into a victim. Its repulsive.

I'm so angry at the Netherlands.

I can’t find mine either OP. But I can hear his fucking magnum opus with timpani drums! Even louder is his silencing of his victim with his “Waah! Sobby cry cry! If people want me to take responsibility, well, they’re entitled to want that. By the way that’s me STILL not taking responsibility. It was the worst time of MY life. Forget my victim. It’s all about meeee! It’s the biggest mistake I ever made because I got caught. And the louder I speak about how hard it is for me, the more irrelevant and invisible my victim becomes until she gets totally silenced by my noise.”

@Abstractthinking He knew of her true age before he made the journey to the UK to have sex with her.

Abstractthinking stop snorting those Mother Goose nursery rhymes. You’ve got the insight of an Argos catalogue.

At least after all the publicity no one will be taken in to allow play dates for their children at the home of a malicious conniving paedophile.

He is in plain sight and hopefully will be judged by anyone who comes into contact with him as a possible threat and scum to be avoided.

I don't know about NL but when I applied to be a PSCO in the UK I had to give full details of all my family so they could do background checks including past/spent convictions. And that's for a voluntary role.

If it's similar in the Netherlands how the hell is she allowed to be a police officer with such a scumbag husband?!

And he knew when he started grooming her when she was 10 🤢

There's always at least 1 paedo/rape sympathiser on these threads.

Sick bastards.

I didn’t know they started speaking when she was 10! No 10 year old looks 16.

Beyond grim. That poor girl

We should have supported him on this.

We nearly quitted. Now, if we could have got our steel toe cap heavy duty boots on, we could have given him a massive kick in the ass and help him to achieve his quitting. We should be more pro-active next time and actually kick him out before he feels like quitting.
Why they allowed him to take part is beyond me.

It was not a fucking 'error of judgement!'. He started grooming her when she was TEN! Deliberately waited until she was 12 as at that age you can get lower sentences if they consented in NL. It was all very preplanned.

I lived in NL for several years from being a teenager and a blind eye is turned to many things. My rape at age 16 was entirely disregarded by local police.

Don't get me wrong, there are many positive things about Dutch culture. But there is a huge amount of misogyny and racism too.

I don"t know about that. There are plenty of people, even parents, who'd say "It was a mistake", "It was years ago", "He was only a kid himself", "She probably looked older", "My 3 year old Emma will be safe enough, he's not interested in small children".

She was a fan who contacted him through FB. He then groomed her and arrange to meet her. He waited until her mother wasn't around, then took her virginity. He then told her to go to family planning clinic to get the morning after pill while he fucked off back home.

Why are they calling him a child rapist instead of a paedophile?

He's a convicted paedophile and worse still he served no time whatsoever.

A fucking scandal he was allowed to compete.

If he was hoping his child would never find out, maybe he should have chosen to live a quiet life and not compete at the Olympics in front of a global audience, maybe.

I I I
I made a mistake
it affected my life

not once did he say I fucked up a child’s life and quite rightly was punished for it.

My concern is all this must be so triggering for her

I agree it's such a fuss over nothing tut poor fella. Yeah I am taking the piss but at least you already knew you were gonna get flamed so you seem to have more self awareness than the man in question. I only feel sorry for his victim and his own kid tbh and his wife is a police officer? Officer doofy springs to mind

Or maybe he shouldn’t have raped someone else’s child in the first place.

pathetic shoulnt be given the time of day

bullie my arse