Marijuana? It's perfectly fine in the Netherlands. Prostitution? Customers are openly solicited from Amsterdam storefronts. Live sex shows? That's old hat to the Dutch. \n But child pornography is simply not tolerated and the discovery of a Netherlands-based kiddie porn ring has rocked the Dutch to their inner core and even scandalized the Justice Ministry, where a top employee was found with child porn on his office computer. \n The Dutch are anything but calm about these latest developments. They are calling for a crackdown on electronic porn and a return of anti-porn vice squads. \n And, like nearly all things involving the Internet, the case goes well beyond Dutch borders. It is believed that the child porn scandal has links to Germany, Italy and the United States. \n It started in June with the death of Gerrie Ulrich, 49, a convicted German pedophile was shot in Pisa, Italy. Ulrich had an apartment in the little North Sea town of Zandvoort, which Dutch police raided in mid-July. There, authorities discovered a mother lode of child porn on a computer hard drive and diskettes. \n Among the images seized was video showing children barely old enough to walk being raped and sodomized. One film, Oh Daddy, featured a middle-aged man having sex with girls who are only five and eight years old. One girl seemed barely conscious, suggesting she had been heavily drugged. \n Then, at the end of July, an official high up in the Justice Ministry, which is conducting the investigation, was found to have child porn on his office computer for personal use. He was promptly dismissed but the discovery added more fuel to the scandal over child porn. \n Dutch investigators believe that little, if any, of the kiddie porn taken from Ulrich's apartment was made in the Netherlands. They suspect it was produced in central and eastern Europe and uploaded to the Internet in the U.S. \n The maximum penalty for mere possession of child porn in the Netherlands is six years in prison. But the authorities acknowledge that there are so many ways to avoid detection on the Internet that nabbing child pornographers is no easy task.
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