Ludo de B. will remain in a TBS clinic for at least another two years. He poses too great a risk to society. The court in Breda determined this on Friday. The chance that the convicted murderer and rapist will ever be released seems to be getting smaller by the year.
Ludo de B. (64) kidnapped and raped several Belgian teenage girls in the border region in the early 1990s. He knocked two victims unconscious and may have buried them alive in a forest near Putte. He was caught and received twenty years in prison and TBS with compulsory treatment.
‘Morbid disorder’
He has served his sentence. His TBS started in 2003. Various clinics throughout the country treated him intensively, but that led to nothing. The clinics find him ‘not editable’. They cannot do anything with him because the core problems remain current, namely a morbid disorder and defective development.
All experts agree: releasing him without supervision and care is dangerous. The risk of recurrence remains high and supervision and care remain necessary, according to the experts. Sexual violence is also a threat.
Ceiling has been reached
The experts gave up: he was out of treatment, was the conclusion. That is why an application was made in February 2021 to place him in a TBS clinic for the rest of his life without further treatment and without leave.
Last summer, psychologists and psychiatrists got together to see if anything could be done. A Limburg TBS institution wanted to take him in for observation.
Extension
That observation has been going on for a few weeks now. But something like this takes 22 weeks and after that everything has to be sorted out. Experts therefore recently recommended extending his TBS by two years. The prosecutor agreed.
His lawyer asked for a one-year extension. The judges nevertheless opted for the maximum two years because they do not expect things to be different with Ludo de B in a year’s time.
At the next assessment in 2025, according to experts and also the court, there are two options. If he is doing better, he will come to a long-care place and he can go on leave with security guards and guidance. If he is still dangerous, he will be given a long stay place in a TBS clinic and without further treatment for the rest of his life.
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