‘Surrogate mother’ Marian van D. is said to have kept a young, vulnerable woman as a house slave for years

For eleven years she worked from early morning to late at night, seven days a week, without seeing a cent in return. According to the Public Prosecution Service, this is what the life of a young, vulnerable woman who lived and worked at the stud farm of Marian van D. from Kamerik was like. The victim’s caravan was full of caked-on food scraps and vermin droppings, and the sink was completely moldy. The 56-year-old ‘surrogate mother’ is accused of serious crimes, including human trafficking and exploitation. Not true, she says: she offered a safe place to a young woman who had nowhere else to go. In The Case Dissected, court reporter Marieke de Witte and presenter Wilson Boldewijn discuss whether this concerns abhorrent abuses that lasted for more than a decade, or a misunderstanding completely taken out of context. The Dissected Case can also be listened to via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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