The Amsterdam court does not require 33-year-old Aalsmeerder Leroy S. to go back to prison. He also avoids the community service required by the Public Prosecution Service. S. kidnapped his three children on the night of March 5 to 6, threatened their mother with death and threw his newborn baby. He suffered a skull fracture.
S. stated during the hearing two weeks ago that that night was a big blur for him. He has no memory of the events, which included throwing his eight-day-old baby on the bed. His seven-year-old son told the police. The baby’s head has now fully recovered.
Therapy
The court considers it especially important that S. undergoes psychological treatment, so that the chance that he will make a mistake again is reduced. The judge therefore imposes mandatory treatment with a psychologist and a suspended prison sentence of four months with a probation period of three years. He has already served the unconditional part of six months during his pre-trial detention.
When determining the amount of the sentence, the judge took into account that S. was declared less accountable due to a personality disorder. In addition to the treatment, S. is banned from drinking alcohol and must be regularly checked for alcohol consumption. S. himself thinks that his quitting was ultimately caused by the alcohol he drank that evening with a friend. He also suspects that that is why he can no longer remember anything.
Contact ban
To protect his children, the Aalsmeer father still has a contact ban for the time being. He is allowed to see the children under supervision. At the moment this is two hours a week under the supervision of his mother. He must keep the ankle bracelet he has been wearing since his release for a number of months.
The fact that S. does not now have to do community service does not mean that the court allows him to sit at home and do nothing. One of the conditions is that he must make an effort to find and keep paid work. In court, S. said that he now has a job.
This happened on the night of March 5 to 6
Leroy S. aggressively took his children from the house in Aalsmeer where they live with their mother during the night of March 5 to 6. He also destroyed the gas stove, resulting in the house smelling of gas and the street having to be closed off. The mother has parental authority over the children, which made him guilty of kidnapping.
When picking up the children, he allegedly placed or threw the youngest, an 8-day-old girl, forcefully onto a bed, causing her head to hit the edge of the bed and causing a fracture in her skull. “Daddy threw the baby,” his eldest child (7 years old) said. Meanwhile, the children’s mother, who was still recovering from her birth, hid barefoot in the bushes out of fear. S. threatened her with death.
Together with his children, S. then took a taxi and called the police on the way. He told them to be a gun hazard and to hold his children at gunpoint. His 7-year-old son later said his father threatened him in the taxi and said he would throw the baby in a dumpster. S. took the children to his mother after that taxi ride. He was eventually arrested in a taxi in Hoofddorp.
After that evening, S. was imprisoned for six months. But the Public Prosecutor decided during a preparatory hearing on August 25 that S. could await his case in freedom, but with an ankle bracelet. To protect his children from him, he had to adhere to a contact and location ban.