Child pornography is a flourishing trade in west, especially in Europe. Child images are sold at premium online. The customers are well heeled professionals like lawyers and judges. Hanging, castration, imprisonment, cutting off genitals etc will not serve as a deterrent punishment to paedophiles in future. Print and visual media should play a pivotal role by exposing these sexual abusers of children. Wide coverage should be given regarding the heinous deeds and social status of these perpetrators of child sex abusers including their dear and near ones thereby forcing these die hard reprehensible and abominable vermin to commit suicide out of disgrace
I had developed some attraction towards young boys: Dutch child porn suspect
Times Now has got a copy of the confession of alleged child sex offender Will Heum. In the confession which was Heum’s custodial interrogation and submitted to the magistrate of the Saidapet court in Chennai which is hearing the case, Will Heum has said that he indulged in sexual acts with little and lured children by offering them gifts.
Heum has said that when he was running the orphanage home in Mahabalipuram, it was very easy to access children from the area. He adds that he convinced them by giving them gifts and periodically entertainment like video games.
“Since I am living without female companions or a caretaker for several years - I had developed some attraction towards young boys,” reads the confession. Heum even goes on to say that, after being released from prison in the Mahabalipuram case in 2002, he took up the practice where he had left it - using young boys for sexual pleasure. He also said he had asked the children to pose in some intimate scenes for photographs with him – some of which he stored on his computer and uploaded in 2009.
Heum reportedly made the confession after police confronted him with pornographic home videos made by Heum featuring him with his young victims, which were picked up from his Chennai residence where raids were carried out. The confession, which has been submitted to the court along with signatures of two independent witnesses, will only be treated as circumstantial evidence unless Heum admits to the magistrate that he made the confession not under duress but of his own free will.
This is unlikely considering that Heum only yesterday completely detracted from the reported statements saying he was being framed and wished to go back to the Netherlands. The police however, are not perturbed that this will affect the prosecution’s case, as they claim to have gathered enough corroborative evidence to make a water tight case.
Heum in the confession admits to committing both crimes he has been accused of - child sexual abuse under unnatural sexual offences (2002) and digital child pornography under the new IT Act (2005).
Reacting to the news report, child rights activist and director of the Centre for Social Research Ranjana Kumari expressed horror and disgust saying Heum deserved the severest of punishment.
“It is absolutely horrifying – He is doubly guilty – for running an orphanage for deprived and vulnerable children, and then taking advantage of the vulnerability of the helpless, dependents for his sexual lust. He should be given severest punishment through a fast track court, and should not be allowed to go back to Netherlands. It is only way to deal with paedophiles like him who come in to India under all sorts of excuses,” said Ranjana Kumari.
Heum yesterday denied confessing to his crimes saying someone had hatched a conspiracy against him because his orphanage had received international funding. “It was a setup case. We got two crore rupees, so they put me out,” said Heum.
International child rights body ECPAT has spoken out against any plans to extradite Will Heum saying he should face charges in the country he is accused and that he must face the Indian legal system and the charges brought against him.
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