NetherlandsThe Dutch Public Prosecution Service has requested four years in prison for a 59-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Bodegraven in 1990. The suspect, Willem V., was identified through DNA testing last year and confessed to the crime. The victim, now 50, expressed deep emotional pain during the court hearing, criticizing the suspect for remaining silent for 35 years. According to prosecutors, V. visited the girl’s home under the pretense of contacting her mother but then assaulted her. The case remained unsolved until a DNA match linked him to the crime, despite an earlier unrelated conviction in the UK where his DNA exonerated him. V.’s brother had previously been wrongly arrested based on a composite sketch. The victim described lasting trauma from the incident, including being forced to live in fear due to financial constraints.
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