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Prosecutors recommend 11 years prison for foster parents in Vlaardingen child abuse case

The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has recommended 11-year prison sentences and compulsory psychiatric treatment at a TBS facility at the district court in Rotterdam in the case of a 10-year-old foster girl from Vlaardingen who was severely abused. Prosecutors say Johnny van den B. and Daisy W. deliberately caused serious physical injuries to their foster child between June 2023 and May 20, 2024, when she was hospitalized in critical condition with ten broken bones and brain damage.

The girl sustained five broken ribs and five fractured vertebrae. Prosecutors say it is also proven that, during the same period, the suspects abused their foster child in other ways, including hitting her forcefully on the thighs while she was squatting.

The two foster parents are also accused of restraining the girl unlawfully from December 2023. She was allegedly chained to a bunk bed or confined in a cage with an electric wire attached. “This constitutes a form of psychological torture,” the prosecutor said.

The girl suffered numerous injuries, including pressure sores on her heels. Prosecutors say these match the constant standing required in the cage, as do the swelling around her ankles. The foster parents allegedly neglected the child by giving her too little food and denying her medical care. At the time, she weighed just 19.5 kilograms.

According to the OM, the two suspects collaborated closely over an extended period, as shown by chat messages exchanged between W. and Van den B. It remains unclear exactly what occurred on May 20 last year or how the child suffered such severe injuries that she ended up in a coma. “Too little is known about that,” the prosecutor said. “That it could escalate to this extent is deeply tragic and barely foreseeable.”

Prosecutors say the defendants also abused the girl’s half-sister and two other foster children, both boys, who were living in the same household. The OM maintains that the mistreatment of these children has been clearly and convincingly proven.

According to experts at the Pieter Baan Center, both foster parents have a personality disorder, while Van den B. also exhibits an aggression disorder. On that basis, prosecutors concluded that the two defendants were not fully accountable for their actions.

Perhaps foster parents should be required to undergo psychological evaluations before putting vulnerable children in their care? What do you think?

The trial resumes Tuesday with final arguments from the defense. The defendants will have the opportunity to speak at the end of the third and final hearing day. The court has not yet announced when it will issue its ruling.

Child Sexual Abuse > State Democrats vote to protect pedophiles from parents of victims; Foster child abused in the Netherlands in coma

 

There has to be a major lawsuit here to address this madness

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NL Cabinet horrified by report on abused foster child; caregiver suspended

A blend of 3 different reports from NLTimes

The Dutch cabinet expressed shock after a report revealed severe neglect and abuse of a foster child in Vlaardingen. Four ministers outlined the findings in a letter to the parliament, emphasizing the need for reform in the youth care sector to prevent such incidents in the future. In relation to the case, the caregiver responsible for the foster child has been placed on suspension by the foster care organization Enver.

 The girl was severely abused by her foster parents, resulting in permanent injuries.

The girl, who had been placed in foster care after her biological mother lost custody, was hospitalized in May 2024 with severe injuries, including brain trauma and multiple fractures. She was unresponsive upon arrival at the hospital and later remained in a coma. The child is now permanently dependent on intensive care.

The report indicates that despite multiple attempts by the girl to seek help, child protection agencies, including the William Schrikker Foundation (WSS) and Enver, failed to intervene. The girl had reportedly asked for help several times, but no action was taken.

The child was 10 years old when she and her sister were entrusted to foster parents John and Daisy van den B., both 38, in March 2022. The sister returned to her biological mother in 2023, the girl remained with the Van den B.s. The Inspectorates’ report states that the foster parents systematically and increasingly violently abused her for months, giving her barely anything to eat, physically assaulting her, locking her into an electrified cage, and portraying her as a pathological liar.

The care providers responsible for her - foster care organization Enver and youth protection organization William Schrikker Stichting (WSS), which has legal guardianship over the girl - turned a blind eye, ignoring the cries for help from the child herself, her biological mother, neighbors, her school, and even the police.

According to the Telegraaf, the child’s foster care supervisor, “Rob”, carries a big part of the blame. He was supposed to monitor the girl’s well-being, but instead acted more like a family friend to the foster parents, not only ignoring signs of abuse but outright denying them. He insisted that John and Daisy van den B. offered a “loving place” for the girl, despite clear signs of abuse and previous reports of them abusing other foster children.

In July 2021, Evner placed three Syrian brothers with John and Daisy van den B. under Rob’s supervision. The oldest boy was moved a week later after an argument with John van den B., but the other two stayed until 13 September 2021, when they were urgently moved due to signs of child abuse. The foster parents allegedly kept them in a dog cage and didn’t give them enough food or clothing. The police asked Nidos, the youth protection agency responsible for the three boys, to press charges, but that didn’t happen for unclear reasons. Six months later, Rob placed the Vlaardingen girl and her sister in the same family.

Between June and August 2022, there were several worrying reports about sexually transgressive behavior in the foster family, including that Jonn van den B. had sexually abused the girl, according to the newspaper. However, a youth worker from WWS stated that these signals were untrue and Rob was adamant that the accusations were unjustified. No one at WWS or Enver spoke to the girl herself, and no doctor examined her medically.

In May last year, John van de B. rushed the severely malnourished 10-year-old girl to a hospital with multiple broken bones and serious brain damage. Doctors immediately called the police, who arrested the foster parents a short time later. 

The Public Prosecution Service (OM) suspects them of attempted manslaughter, severe assault, unlawful deprivation of liberty, and putting and leaving someone in a healthy state. The OM is also charging them with abusing the girl’s sister and two of the three Syrian brothers.

Child Sexual Abuse > Truly monstrous Dutch foster parents, should have been stopped; Irish HSE Manager jailed for awful CSAM

 

Dutch foster parents accused of abusing

3 more children; First victim "stable"

but will never be all right

The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is charging two foster parents accused of severely abusing a 10-year-old girl in their custody with abusing three other foster children as well. These are two boys and the first victim’s half-sister. 

The 10-year-old girl’s condition is stable, the OM revealed in court on Monday. She will require intensive care for the rest of her life. Both the biological mother of the boys and the girls are furious, their spokesperson said.

The boys, who were 11 and 5 when they stayed with the foster parents, were allegedly kicked and beaten. The foster parents pressed cigarette butts out on their skin and they had to sleep in a dog kennel, the OM said in court. They were also given little to eat. The foster parents allegedly abused these boys, brothers, between 20 July 2021 and 13 September 2021.

The OM told the Rotterdam court on Monday that after earlier media reports about the 10-year-old girl, a psychologist who had treated one of the brothers came forward. The psychologist made video footage available to the police and judiciary, showing one of the boys talking about the foster parents abusing him.

The fourth child, the 10-year-old girl’s half-sister, was allegedly abused by the foster parents between 12 March 2022 and 31 December 2023. She was 2 and 3 at the time. They allegedly kicked her all over her body and forced her to stand in a bucket with her own excrement. They also shaved her hair, the OM said.

Vlaardingen

10-year-old girl in stable condition

The medical condition of the 10-year-old girl who got this case rolling when she was hospitalized severely beaten and in a comatose state in May is stable, the OM said. “There are very small developments. She is literally and figuratively taking small steps,” the OM said in court. “This does not alter the fact that she will be dependent on intensive care for the rest of her life.”

The girl suffered brain damage and broken bones and was in a coma for weeks. When she was taken to the hospital, she weighed only 20 kilograms, the OM said at the previous hearing in September. The girl regained consciousness on July 23.

The OM suspects the foster parents of trying to kill the girl by pushing her down the stairs. According to the OM, they also locked her in a cage with electric wires attached to it, tied up her arms and legs, and taped her mouth shut.

Were these people on heavy drugs, or were they completely Satanic? Whatever, it should have been noticable to social workers responsible for those children. Why wasn't it? This is a stunning failure by the institution that place children with this mad couple. There needs to be consequences for them or this will happen again and again.

Biological mothers’ response

The two boys’ mother is angry and sad. She has not yet been questioned by the various Inspectorates investigating the safety of care in the Vlaardingen foster family, her spokesperson for the organization Namens de Familie, which represents the families of victims.

According to the boys’ biological mother’s spokesperson, she was initially advised against reporting the abuse to the police. “She had previously shared their experiences, but in her view, too little was done. She feels the experiences were hushed. Her request to report the incident to the police was rejected. If only she had done so at the time.” The boys were placed with another foster mother, where they arrived “black and blue,” the spokesperson said.

For the girls’ mother, it remains unbelievable that her children were placed with the family, said the same advocate. “Now that it has become clear that the boys were already abused in 2021 and that this must have been known, including to the foster care institution that placed the girls. It is extra painful for the mother now that she realizes that her daughter could possibly have been spared the misery if the boys’ reports had been followed up more seriously. She sympathizes with the grief of the boys’ family.”

The OM expanded the charges against the suspects, Daisy W. and Johnny van den B., both 37, on Monday. They were not present in court. The next preliminary hearing is on February 12. 

Reporting by ANP and NL Times

Former HSE manager jailed for six years for sharing child sexual abuse images

Peter O’Malley (47) fantasised with other Kik users about

raping children and making them cry

HSE - Health and Safety Executive

A former HSE manager who fantasised with other users of an online messaging service about raping children and making them cry was sentenced to six years in prison on Monday by a Circuit Court judge.

Peter O’Malley (47), with an address at Hawthorn Place, Ballinrobe, Co Mayo, appeared before Judge Eoin Garavan at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court for sentencing.

O’Malley, who set up Covid-19 clinics in Mayo and Roscommon at the height of the pandemic, pleaded guilty at an earlier court sitting to 10 sample charges of distributing and possessing child abuse images.

Some of the pictures were described by Det Garda Paula Griffin of the Mayo Divisional Protective Servíces Unit as images of “extreme depravity.”

The offences were committed over a period of 22 months, between January 2020 and October 2021. 

O’Malley, acting as administrator of a group on the Kik online messaging site, asked one user if he could have sexual intercourse with his 12-year-old daughter.

In another instance, he described how he wanted to abuse the two-year old baby of a user whom he engaged in conversation.

The earlier court was told O’Malley knowingly engaged in five online conversations with children under the age of 18 from Co Cork and Co Kilkenny.

His personal phone contained 128,791 images of which approximately 70 per cent was of pornographic nature, legal and illegal. The phone held 249 images of child abuse material, including 62 images of category 1 and 44 images of a category 2 content.

The category 1 images included content of children from three years old to 17 years old engaged in sexually explicit activity or witnessing it, of which there were children being sexually abused by adults. The category 2 images included content in which children’s genitals were exposed and they were in poses of a sexual nature.

On Monday, Judge Garavan said O’Malley had shown an ongoing obsession with pornography and exploitation in a significant way. 

Judge Garavan noted that as administrator of the Kik app from September 2020 the accused decided who could come into the group.

The provision of photos created a market or certainly an incentive for additional material being procured which in the whole scheme of things caused children all over the world to be abused and photographed.

Describing the images as highly graphic, Judge Garavan said that ultimately the accused was a member of a type of paedophile ring – not by perpetrating sexual assaults – but by the sharing and distribution of children being sexually abused “in a way that amounts to torture”.

O’Malley was suspended from the HSE in February 2022 after he was arrested by gardaí following a tip off from FBI investigators regarding his activity on the Kik social media app.

Imposing a six-year prison sentence, Judge Garvan ordered counselling and post-release supervision of three years under the Probation Service.

He also stipulated that O’Malley that post release O’Malley must get the prior approval of gardaí or the Probation Service in respect of owning, using or accessing smartphones or other digital devices. 

He also must permit the gardaí to inspect any such devices.

The prison sentence was backdated to October 21st last when O’Malley was first placed in custody.