Celebrity Paedogeddon and old men yelling at clouds

The bbc survived saville...I think they will be just fine.

I think you're mixing it up with necrophile

This isn't really remotely comparable to the saville thing though, or at least shouldn't be.

There's a large section of the written press, plus alt-right people online, who will use anything like this as a stick to attack the BBC with. Hopefully the change in government should insulate them a bit from the attacks though.

They did go to the police didn't they? But no charges were brought about. It's literally in that article you just posted.

They should have just got God to sort it out, the idiots

He obviously asked for a sign from god as you say, but the sign was all those sexy children everywhere...

www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/14/dutch-beach-volleyball-player-raped-child-breaks-silence-over-olympics-steven-van-de-velde

There's a lot to unpack here from his comments. Just a few thoughts...

1. He's the victim here. Apparently.
2. His grooming of a 12 year old from when she was 10, buying a plane ticket to visit her, getting her drunk, raping her multiple times and then telling her to get the morning after pill herself was "a mistake ".

Just checked and the Doctor Who episode featuring Huw Edwards that has been pulled from iplayer is "Fear Her", that shitty olympic episode. Never liked that one, so it's no great loss.

You would think, as a country, you wouldn't send a convicted child rapist to represent you

What pride can there be in that

Forgive the copy and paste but the wiki details quite interesting. He initially had four years till the dutch adjusted it.

Sentencing and release

In March 2016, Van de Velde pleaded guilty at Aylesbury Crown Court to three counts of child rape, specifically the charge of rape of a child under the age of 13. The judge sentenced Van de Velde to four years' imprisonment and placed him on the UK sex offender registry, where his name remains.[9] During his sentencing remarks, the judge said, "Your hopes of representing your country [as an Olympic athlete] now lie as a shattered dream" and "he has lost a stellar sports career being branded a rapist. Plainly it is a career end for him".[10]

Under a treaty between the Netherlands and UK, Van de Velde was transferred to the Netherlands to serve his sentence. The sentence was adjusted in line with Dutch law, and the charge of rape was substituted for one referring to ontucht ("sexual acts that violate social-ethical norms").[11][12] After serving 13 months of his original four year sentence, he was released from prison.[8] Until 1 July 2024, Dutch law only recognised rape if force was involved.[13]

After his release in 2017, Van de Velde complained about "all the nonsense" reporting on his crime in the media, claiming that the term pedophile did not apply to him.[1] He also said he had not read the reporting he was criticizing.

[14] The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in Britain condemned his comments at the time, stating that his "lack of remorse and self-pity is breathtaking".[8] He later claimed that he "made that choice in my life when I wasn't ready, I was a teenager still figuring things out. I was sort of lost".[15] He has described it as "the biggest mistake of my life".[16

It really does come across as some insane white privilege that he was even given a platform to even say all this absolute bile.

Angola says hello according to the interwebs. They also say that a lot of Europe have consent at the lower end of the scale. Italy kicks things off at 14 apparently. I knew there was a good reason I never leave the house, it's all nazis and pedos out there.

That doesn't sound good.