Steven van de Velde pleaded guilty to raping a 12-year-old British girl when he was 19, after meeting the minor online and chatting with her for months.
Steven van de Velde of the Netherlands during Day 6 of the Beach World Champs Tlaxcala 2023 at Tlaxcala Plaza de Toros on October 11, 2023 in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Van de Velde's inclusion on the Dutch Olympics team is sparking outrage because he is a convicted child rapist.
Van de Velde served a year in prison in the U.K. before being extradited to the Netherlands and resentenced according to Dutch law. He served one more month in a Dutch prison before being released in early 2017. It added that both the federation and the Netherlands Olympic Committee “rely on the opinions of experts who consider the chance of recidivism nil.”
“I understand that in the run-up to the biggest sporting event in the world, this can attract the attention of international media,” he wrote. “I cannot reverse it, so I will have to bear the consequences.”
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