Convicted Child Rapist to Compete in Olympics Beach Volleyball
A convicted child rapist will compete in the Olympics on Sunday despite being a registered sex offender.
Steven van de Velde, a Dutch beach volleyball player, was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 for traveling to Milton Keynes, England and raping a 12-year-old school girl he met on Facebook when he was 19.
But he is due to step onto the special sand of the Olympic beach volleyball court in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower to represent the Netherlands in a first-round match against Italy.