The Antwerp Court of Appeal bends at this point about the pedophilia case Pieter Ceulen. The lawyers of the Antwerp investment advisor (60) requested a hearing behind closed doors, but the court did not respond.
Pieter Ceulen was sentenced in January to 19 years in prison for sexual abuse of children in the Philippines and Cambodia, including his own three foster daughters. He fled to Cambodia, but also because he felt hunted. The businessman decided to surrender and returned in March returned to Belgium. He's since been in custody.
Ceulen led 15 years a double life. To the outside world, he was a successful business and family man who did charity, but all the while he kept a secret, perverse sex life after. That came to light when an undercover FBI agent using GigaTribe's access to his child pornography collection, numbering up to 700 gigabytes.
The businessman also often traveled to Cambodia, where he along with his wife, three girls and a boy adopted from an orphanage that he financially supported. He had taken nude pictures of the girls and the court found it proven that he had also raped one of them.
Milder punishment
Ceulen got 19 years in prison and was again made available for 15 years by the sentencing court. He appealed and now hopes for a more lenient punishment.
The lawyers Pieter Ceulen requested a hearing behind closed doors. "Through the press hoopla, the privacy of the client and his family in jeopardy," she argued. But the court was not in there.
Ceulen itself came as well as speaking. "I think the punishment too high. So I will die in prison. "
Chemical castration
The case came back in May for the Court of Appeal, but when postponement was requested. Ceulen wanted the postponement use to address his problem. "He wants to follow a medical treatment, and he is no longer a danger to society," his lawyer said.
Or 'medical treatment' is a chemical castration, has not been confirmed, but it has all the appearances of.
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