The Vlaardingen foster girl was seriously injured in the night of May 20 to 21, 2024. According to the Public Prosecution Service, she was locked in a cage and denied medical care. The foster parents are also said to have abused three other foster children.
Numerous photos during the previous court hearings showed the girl chained naked to a bunk bed with a chain. Or huddled in a cage with electrical wires attached to it. The now 11-year-old foster girl suffered numerous broken bones and serious brain injuries and will require intensive care for the rest of her life.
Public Prosecution Service demands prison sentences of 11 years and TBS against Vlaardingen foster parents Johnny van den B. and Daisy W.
During the previous hearing day, the foster parents mainly tried to blame each other and the authorities. Daisy W. depicted herself as a victim of her dominant husband. She said that she regularly confronted him about his harsh approach, but he would then become angry and hit her. Johnny van den B. focused his accusations on the foster care institutions, which, according to him, did not provide the help he had asked for. “We are not the only ones responsible,” he said.
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The Inspectorates conclude that foster girl “left to fend for itself” by Enver and the WSS. The authorities and the Child Protection Council did not have a clear vision of the girl’s situation, says Aarts.
After “serious signals of concern”, the help from Enver and the William Schrikker Foundation fell short, Aarts quotes from the Inspectorates’ report. Information has not been shared sufficiently by the organizations.
Aarts says that the situation in the family of Johnny vd B. and Daisy W. “could arise, continue and worsen” due to the lack of help. First and foremost, she calls it distressing foster girlbut also for the suspects.
Johnny vd B. explained it foster girl occasionally chained up to ensure her safety and that of the family. Aarts: “My client is a man of solutions, but this crept in. He wanted to prevent her from jumping out of the window.”
The night she was admitted to the hospital, the foster parents heard a loud bang coming from upstairs. What caused that thump could be the reason for the brain damage it caused foster girl turned out to have, says Aarts.
According to Johnny vd B. it was foster girl in the weeks before she ended up in the hospital, trying to harm herself. She fell down the stairs twice and complained of a headache afterwards.
Daisy W. told a witness that she could no longer cope with it foster girlbut that she did not want to put her in a home. Johnny vd B. wanted that.
Aarts reads from witness statements. It foster girl would destroy things, lie about everything, fall down the stairs and not be allowed to go to school anymore because she accused the director of sexual abuse.
The other foster son in the family and the biological daughter of the suspects stated that foster girl injured himself and also fell down the stairs. She wanted to die.
According to Aarts, there are numerous written documents showing that Daisy W. and Johnny vd B. have asked for help several times. She says she hopes that these documents will lead to the Public Prosecution Service still deciding to prosecute the authorities.
According to Aarts, the foster girl was not removed from the home for nothing. The lawyer says so foster girl talked about her mother’s use of alcohol and drugs and her sister’s father’s violence against her mother.
Aarts outlines how the behavioral problems became increasingly worse and that there was no response to requests for help from both suspects.
It foster girl came from a crisis foster home. She accused her crisis foster father and brother of sexual abuse, says Aarts.
Johnny vd B. knocks over a cup of water. A box of tissues is brought in to blot everything dry. And a new cup of water.
It foster girl was not easy, says Aarts. She had been through a lot. Things got even worse for her when her younger sister was allowed to return to her mother. During that period there was a change of supervisor. He only came by twice, says Aarts.
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