Suspect (58) Arrested for Rape of Minor in 1990

After 35 years, the Dutch police have arrested the perpetrator of the rape of an underage girl in Bodegraven. The now 58-year-old suspect from Altena in Brabant was tracked down thanks to new developments in DNA research. He was arrested yesterday and has since confessed, the Public Prosecution Service reports. In March 1990, the man rang the doorbell at the house in Bodegraven where the underage girl lived. She was home alone. He managed to get…

The ball started rolling thanks to the increasingly widespread international exchange of DNA databases.

The echoes of the macabre events that took place last month in Częstochowa are still ongoing. Two teenage girls (13 and 14 years old), according to investigators, were allegedly raped by two 23-year-olds. Only one of them (Konrad M.) was arrested. The prosecutor's office filed a complaint that the court did not arrest the second suspect, Adrian P. The court has just considered the investigators' motion and issued a decision in this case.

A 58-year-old man from the municipality of Altena was arrested on Wednesday for the rape of an underage girl in Bodegraven in 1990. This happened after a possible match with a DNA trace from a case from 2003 in a database in the United Kingdom, the Public Prosecution Service reported on Saturday. The victim was raped on March 30, 1990 when she was home alone. The perpetrator had entered with an excuse and threatened to stab her several times wit…

On Wednesday, the police arrested a 58-year-old man from Altena (North Brabant) for the rape of an underage girl in Bodegraven in 1990. This happened after a possible match with a DNA trace from a 2003 case in a database in the United Kingdom, the Public Prosecution Service reported on Saturday.