In 2016, Steven van de Velde pleaded guilty to three counts of raping a 12-year British schoolgirl. On Sunday, the registered sex offender was knocked out of the Paris Olympics.
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.
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?