58-year-old Corrie S. from Tilburg has been given a TBS with compulsory treatment for stalking her daughters for years. The court in Breda decided this.
Due to their mother’s obsessive behavior, the daughters were always on edge and under a lot of stress. They have never been able to lead a relaxed life and have adopted a survival mechanism from childhood, as a result of which they now experience trouble, the court ruled.
Corrie S.’s daughters saw no other option than to keep reporting their own mother and demanding a restraining order. One of the daughters is now 29 years old and told the hearing that she does not have a day of rest: “I wake up with that restlessness and go to bed with it,” she told the judges and also her own mother. “This is not life, this is survival.”
The daughters have had no contact with their mother for 13.5 years. After a difficult divorce, the daughters chose not to see their mother anymore. “Something snapped in 2009,” Corrie knew.
‘Mother’s love’
But Corrie did not accept it. She wanted contact, she wanted to take care of her daughters. “That is motherly love,” she told the judges. “I could be friends with them and I could offer them a lot.”
And despite reports from her daughters and employers and a restraining order, she still looked for an opportunity to speak to her daughters in all kinds of ways.
“There was never a conversation,” Corrie mourned. And so she often tried to have a conversation through an employer, via Facebook or emails. For example, Corrie had called one of the daughters’ work dozens of times and left a voicemail thirteen times with all kinds of crude stories and details about her daughter and her employer.
At a later employer she suddenly got her daughter as a contact person for a possible job in healthcare. And she sent all kinds of messages via the work telephone.
She approached another daughter many times via Facebook to ask her for lunch or an appointment. In addition, she often called 112 or the 0900 number of the police to ask for attention.
Corrie had been convicted before and now the justice system and the court agreed. Corrie must be treated and given the fact that she does not understand her own behavior, this must become mandatory treatment.
Delusional disorder
A psychologist and a psychiatrist have concluded that Corrie has a serious psychotic disorder, namely a serious ongoing delusional disorder that has most likely been present for more than ten years.
This delusional disorder ensures that everything in Corrie’s life is colored by her paranoid delusions about her ex-partner and children. Restoring contact with her children has become her ultimate goal, her ultimate form of justice.
Corrie is convinced that she has the right to contact with her children. In addition, she is unable to empathize with the other person and see how her behavior affects others.
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