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Crowd Cheers as Convicted Rapist is Eliminated in Olympic Beach Volleyball
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
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I totally agree with you and fuck this guy, but there is some context to his sentence here in the Netherlands:
From https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/30/netherlands-child-rapist-olympics-steven-van-de-velde
Oh I know. It's disgusting, but it's the law and you can't retroactively change it. But they could, at the very least, not let the fucker on their Olympics team.
100% agree. I'm Dutch and he's sent there to represent me/us/the country, it's fucking disgusting.
It's interesting, isn't it, that none of the people in this thread defending him being on the team seem to be Dutch.
Is it? What do you read into that?
That Dutch people are apparently not as supportive of a child rapist from their country than other people from other countries are.
You, like most people in this thread, are confusing support for a person with support for a form of punishment which is humanitarian and rehabilitative, rather than vengeful and punitive.
How is a year in prison for repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl either humanitarian or rehabilitative?
He called it nonsense. He joked about finding 10-year-olds at this Olympics. He has never made a public apology. Where is the sign rehabilitation?
WTF? Seriously?
Someone in another thread showed a deleted Instagram post, but I can't find it now. I suppose it could have been a photoshop or something. Also, I don't speak Dutch so I could only approximate that's what it said. Anyway, the rest is definitely true.
The times article said he was very transparent and remorseful though. I find it really bad that you people think a country would be so desperate as to let a criminal off the hook just because he's good at some sport, it's not like he's a powerful politician or something.
Oh, well if the Times article said so.
Did they show exactly how he was remorseful? Because it didn't include a public apology.