Boyfriend takes girl (14) to the woods, where she is raped by others and filmed on Snapchat | Abroad

The victim, who does not live in Kortrijk but elsewhere in Belgium, is said to have been lured by her own 14-year-old boyfriend with an excuse to a forest where other boys were waiting for her. The 14-year-old boy’s lawyer argues against it A.D that her client ‘does not have the profile of a rapist’. “He wants the truth to come to light.”

During the Easter holidays, the girl was unsuspectingly lured to the Kabouterbos in Kortrijk. This is a small forest that is especially popular with mountain bikers and hikers. It is not clear if her boyfriend would have ‘offered’ her, or if something else happened in the woods that was beyond his control.

The boy denies that everything happened as is now reported in the Belgian media based on the judiciary, says his lawyer Nur Demirtas. She doesn’t believe her client is capable of something like that. For the 14-year-old boy, his arrest is ‘traumatizing’. “This is also very difficult for his parents, wealthy people who have tried to give their son a good upbringing. They don’t understand how this could have happened.”

The detectives managed to identify the suspects, about ten of them. This was done partly on the basis of film images made by some young people. These images were then distributed to Snapchat. All smartphones of the suspects have been confiscated.

The events in the forest spanned a period of about three days, the Belgian newspaper reports The last news based on anonymous sources. It is not clear whether the victim was held captive all this time. The teenager, who eventually came forward with her story herself, is now receiving psychological guidance.

In Belgium, people are reacting with horror to the gang rape, which happened during the Easter holidays, but has only now come to public attention. The Belgian Public Prosecution Service, specifically the West Flanders public prosecutor’s office, confirms the facts, but is cautious in its comments. “This is a particularly delicate file with only underage suspects,” says spokeswoman Griet De Perst. “They have all been identified, arrested and are under the supervision of the juvenile judge.”

The young people appeared before a juvenile judge on Wednesday, partly to test their statements. Four of them have been admitted to closed institutions, others have been released but must adhere to strict conditions. They were, among other things, placed under house arrest. A counseling process has been started for some.

A 16-year-old suspect with Somali nationality is now asking to redo the interrogation. “Due to the language barrier, he said things that are not consistent with how he meant them,” his lawyer Kelly De Caluwé said. The newspapaer. “For me he is not a rapist. Although he realizes that something very wrong has happened.” De Caluwé speaks of ‘horrible facts’. “I have never experienced this in my career. And the suspects are very young indeed. Not only the juvenile judge but society as a whole should ask themselves how we are going to combat such cases.”

In the event of a conviction, the juvenile judge can impose various measures, ranging from an educational program or mandatory house arrest to placement in a closed institution. If a suspect is 16 years or older, the juvenile judge can decide to hand over the case, so that the suspect is tried as an adult. In that case, if the victim in the case is a minor, the suspect faces a prison sentence of up to 30 years.

According to Sensoa, the Belgian expertise center for sexual health, there are an average of eleven rapes per day in Belgium based on reports. Almost half concerns the rape of a minor.

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