Project Sweetie 2.0 Country report: Belgium

Abstract

The Institute of Criminal Law is cooperating on a research project on webcam child sex tourism awarded by the Dutch children’s rights organization Terre des Hommes to the universities of Leiden (eLaw) and Tilburg (TILT). The project is part of Sweetie 2.0 in which a chatbot is developed that can be globally used to fight webcam sex with children. The study aims to conduct a comparative law analysis of the use of Sweetie 2.0. For this purpose, the Institute of Criminal Law investigates the application of Belgian criminal law and criminal procedure to Sweetie 2.0.