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Victims of Barendrecht Sex Crime Case Speak Out: 'Our World Has Collapsed'

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"She doesn't talk about it. Not because she doesn't know, but because she can't." This is the mother of one of the victims in the Barendrecht sex crimes case, in which 46-year-old Mels van B. is on trial for serious sexual abuse of dozens of young girls. The woman says her daughter is still too young to grasp the magnitude of what happened to her. The girl scratches her shoulder to feel in control, her mother says. She wants the court to impose …

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"She doesn't talk about it. Not because she doesn't know, but because she can't." This is the mother of one of the victims in the Barendrecht sex crimes case, in which 46-year-old Mels van B. is on trial for serious sexual abuse of dozens of young girls. The woman says her daughter is still too young to grasp the magnitude of what happened to her. The girl scratches her shoulder to feel in control, her mother says. She wants the court to impose …

·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Parents of young victims of the Barendrecht sex crimes case face a diabolical dilemma. Some young children have no memory of being abused, but should you tell them at some point, or not?

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rtl.nl broke the news in on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.
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