Child-porn apparently involving a principal leads to more sex scandals

WHITE RIVER – A local NGO with international organisations are petitioning to ban a legal Dutch paedophile advocacy association. This has come to light after a primary school headmaster was recently arrested for possession of child pornography.

The principal was apparently linked to one of the largest national and global Internet child-porn sting operations. He appeared in the White River Magistrate’s Court on Thursday August 15. He was released on R1 000 bail and will appear again on September 19.

According to police, he was the first suspect to be arrested, after that five others were apprehended countrywide. Police also state 50 suspects are also being investigated.

Child Welfare SA: White River operations manager, Mr Johan Bosch said the organisation had recently been notified of a legal paedophile group that was operating internationally which also could be found on the Internet.

He said they immediately then joined the “Ring the Alarm” petition, which is an organised international petition and protest against the unbanning of the said Dutch association, Martijn. He said shockingly the Netherlands government had unbanned it on April 2.

Bosch said Martijn had stated, “Erotic contacts between adults and children, that are pleasurable and consensual, should be accepted by society.”

According to Bosch, Martijn was started in 1982. “It started with a magazine, Martijn (later renamed as OK Magazine) about adult-child (sexual) relationships and from there on an (advocacy) association was founded. From 2006 to 2010, the same people affiliated with Martijn conducted activities to have a political party registered ( Partij voor Naastenliefde, Vrijheid en Diversiteit) for promoting the social acceptance of sexual relationships between children and adults.”

He said Martijn existed to offer a network of support for paedophiles and glorified sexual relationships between the two parties.

He mentioned that not only was it known for its idealisation of sexual contact between the two, it was also well known that a number of its former members were convicted childmolesters. Bosch said the group was also alleged to organise “holidays” to Cambodia and Africa for its members. “Martijn’s secretary was reportedly convicted twice for child sexual abuse.”

According to Bosch, however, the Dutch public has shown a sense of responsibility for the well-being and safety of children in our country by requestingn assistance to combat organisations such as this.

He said it was widely acknowledged that sex and sexual contact between children and adults affected the psychological development of a yopungster in a negative way and lead to personality disorders and maladjusted behaviours. “There is sufficient evidence that consequences of child abuse are behavioural, emotional, physical, psychological, social, medical, and socio-economical.

Bosh concluded that the negative impact of abuse also applied to and affected the victims’ families, the communities that they lived in and, on a larger scale, the society that they were a part of.

“We therefore believe that child sexual abuse is not only a crime against the victim, but because of the subsequent suffering of the victims’ families and their communities, it is a crime against society.”