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In a case that shocked the Netherlands, Gerrit Jan van Dorsten was alleged to have confined nine of his children to the family's farmhouse in the remote Dutch village of Ruinerwold.
The Austrian was a 'disciple' of the children's father Gerrit Jan van Dorsten, buying groceries and renting the farm (pictured) where van Dorsten was isolating and abusing his children
Father who kept children on isolated farmhouse faces civil action The farmhouse where the family lived for years in isolation. Photo: Rob Engelaar ANP A man who kept six of his nine children isolated from society on a farmhouse in the village of Ruinerwold faces a civil lawsuit brought by four of them, after judges at his criminal trial said his poor health made a proper hearing impossible. The children’s lawyer Corinne Jeekel told television talkshow Op1 on Wednesday evening that the children want ‘justice, the recognition’. ‘This is all they have wanted from the word go,’ Jeekel ...