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Netherlands: Officer jailed for sexually abusing woman

01 January 1999

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A Military Police officer has been jailed for up to eight months. Last year at Schiphol airport the woman from Ecuador had been refused entry to the Schengen area. She did not have a work permit and had insufficient resources to continue her journey to Italy. The police officer dealing with her case took her to the toilet. There, according to the officer, he "asked to have sex with her and she agreed". The woman was said to have cooperated out of fear and because the officer was armed. The court charged the police officer with having abused his position - the question of whether the woman complied was deemed irrelevant.

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