Paedophile Judge Advises Supreme Court on Paedophilia (this is how progressive Europe has gotten)

NIS News ^ | September 10 2008

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MAASTRICHT, 11/09/08 - Former judge Fokke Fernhout is part of a university research team looking into a possible miscarriage of justice in a child abuse case. This is striking as he was convicted of possessing child pornography himself.

Fernhout is involved in a project at the University of Maastricht to examine whether reasonable doubt has been overlooked by judges in criminal cases. He is one of the researchers who will shortly produce a report about the case of a man who claims to have been wrongly convicted of child abuse. This man hopes that the study will provide him with ammunition to contest his conviction before the Supreme Court (Hoge Raad).

Fernhout's advice can have a strong influence on the request for review that the man has submitted. International Criminal Law Professor Geert-Jan Knoops, who has no interest in the case himself, considers that Fernhout's involvement could have disastrous consequences for the convicted man, since the ex-judge is himself a convicted paedophile.

"In such important cases, university researchers must be above reproach where criminal law is concerned," Knoops said yesterday in newspaper De Telegraaf. "If a miscarriage of justice is in fact identified in this case, the review request may be rejected because the Public Prosecutors' Office (OM) will consider Fernhout prejudiced in a case of this nature."

Neither Fernhout nor Peter van Koppen, the supervisor of the university's Gerede Twijfel (Reasonable Doubt) project, was unwilling to comment, according to De Telegraaf. University of Maastricht Dean A. Heringa, however, said that he saw no problems in Fernhout's role in the research. "Fokke is entirely able to make an objective judgement. Moreover, he has not been irreversibly convicted in his own case; an appeal to the Supreme Court is still in progress".

Fernhout was vice president of the court in Maastricht when he was found to possess a substantial collection of child pornography of an extreme nature in 2001. Videotapes and CD-ROMs with very explicit material were found under the floor of his house by a painter.

Fernhout was found guilty in July by the appeal court in The Hague, which did not impose a sentence however, partly because the judges said media attention for his case had harmed his reputation. That verdict was the result of many court cases in which the sentence on Fernhout gradually became lower and lower. Initially the OM also suspected him of sexually abusing his foster son but it dropped this charge.

[knighthawk]

So he is let off the hook by his fellow judges 'because he is punished enough already' and now he even get a job. Yeah, Europe is sooooooo enlightened.

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[Tzimisce]

A Paedophile is someone who likes to have sex with dolls.

A Pedophile is someone who likes to have sex with children.