[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Well, forget any other 2024 Olympics controversies for now. This one takes the effing cake.
Brace yourselves… but if you want to watch the events, you may have to bear witness to a known child rapist competing on the world’s stage! Steven Van de Velde was convicted in 2016 of raping a 12-year-old girl.
According to BBC reports at the time, this all took place in August 2014. The Dutch volleyball star was already 19 years old at the time, a grown man with Olympic prospects, when he met the British preteen on social media.
Despite being aware of her age, Van de Velde traveled to her home in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, in the UK. He waited until her mother was away and went in and had sex with her, taking her virginity.
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