Overview
- The Openbaar Ministerie asked the Rotterdam court to impose 11-year prison terms plus TBS with forced treatment, citing prolonged abuse that left the 10-year-old with brain injury, ten fractures and a body weight of about 19.5 kilograms.
- Curators told the court the girl’s rehabilitation has stopped, she will never live independently and now needs round-the-clock care, with her body covered in lasting scars.
- Pieter Baan Centrum experts reported personality disorders in both defendants and an aggression disorder in the man, assessing reduced accountability and a very high risk of reoffending in a relationship with children; defense pleas are scheduled for Tuesday.
- Prosecutors also treat as proven the mistreatment of the child’s half-sister and two Syrian boys, including confinement and restraining acts the OM described as psychological torture.
- In related regional cases this week, a 20-year-old admitted placing a powerful explosive in Nijkerk as the OM sought five years and linked blasts to a suspected 500-kilo cocaine ripdeal; the Dronten Blaasbalg indictment was amended to allege a woman urged killing and restrained a victim; and the Soest De Bauers arson probe added suspects as investigators examine an insurance-fraud theory with completion targeted by Christmas.