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On 12 December 2010, the Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan announced that het Hofnarretje and Jenno's Knuffelparadijs had probably victimised 30 to 50 children in sexual abuseat nurseries. This came after it was revealed that the main suspect Roberts Mielsons worked at both nurseries. At the time of the arrest, he was working as a nanny. He is also suspected of making and distributing child pornography. [1] His husband Richard van Olffen is also considered a suspect, as is Edwin R.

Several meetings have been held for parents of potential victims and it is known that Roberts Mielsons worked for nine days at The Magic Lantern nursery in August 2009 and sexually abused at least one child there. [2] He was dismissed there on probation. The director of Het Hofnarretje, Albert Drent, was also discredited because there was not enough supervision of his nurseries, sleeping parties with children had been held at his home and he had been dismissed from a nursery in 1995 and a complaint had been filed against him for abusing two children. [3][4] A 2008 report by a parent about Roberts Mielsons did not lead to a report at the time. [5] Drent was ultimately not prosecuted. An Article 12 Sv procedure brought by the parents of the victims was rejected by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. [6]

On January 11, 2011, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that Roberts had confessed to Mielson's 83 cases of child abuse. [7]

M confessed to the abuse of 83 young children, but he is charged with abuse of 67 because some of the parents preferred to keep their children out of the court records owing to privacy concerns.[14] The youngest of these children was 19 days old at the time the acts were committed.[15] The abuse took place at the child care facilities where Miķelsons worked, at the homes of the children he babysat, and at Mikelson and Van Olffen's home. Miķelsons admitted abusing the children and suggested, according to media reports, that more children might have been involved. According to the prosecution (Dutch: Openbaar Ministerie), Miķelsons carefully scouted his babysitting addresses for presence of heavy curtains and absence of nanny cams. He stopped the abuse when the children started to be able to talk.[10]

According to the Amsterdam police, the investigation of leads found on Miķelsons' computer has led, worldwide, to the arrests of 43 suspected child molesters.[33

Information has also surfaced that Mikelsons at one time led games and drawing activities at the Netherlands Latvian Society School Saulite in The Hague.