A gay gang that allegedly raped victims lured on the internet, drugged them and infected them with the AIDS virus has shocked the Netherlands and raised questions over its liberal sex culture. The matter came to light when police said they had arrested three men two weeks ago after four victims, men aged 25 to 50, accused them of rape and premeditated bodily harm.
Ronald Zwarter, the police chief in the northern town of Groningen, where the alleged crimes took place, said two of those arrested, a couple aged 48 and 33, had confessed.
"Their stated motive was that it excited them – and also that, the more HIV-infected people there were, the better their chances of [being able to have] unprotected sex," he said. "They considered unprotected relations to be 'pure'."
A fourth man who allegedly supplied the three suspects with several liters of the date-rape drug GHB and ecstasy tablets was also arrested. According to police and prosecutors, eight more victims have come forward since the case was publicized.
Officials said the three HIV-positive men contatcted potential victims on the internet and invited them to private homosexual orgies. When the victims turned up, they were allegedly given ecstasy and GHB (which is undetectable when mixed in drinks), leaving them helpless and, in some cases, with no memory of what happened. The three suspects – one of whom is a male nurse – were said to have raped the men, and even injected some of them with a mix of their contaminated blood.
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