Dutch farm father 'too ill' for abuse trial
news Dutch farm father 'too ill' for abuse trial © EPA Gerrit-Jan Van Dorsten would be too unwell to follow proceedings, the court said Prosecutors in the Netherlands have dropped a case against a father suspected of keeping his children in isolation for almost a decade. They said that Gerrit-Jan Van Dorsten, 68, would be too ill to follow the trial proceedings. He was charged with unlawful detention, child abuse, sexual abuse of two of the children, and money laundering in January last year. His eldest child, then 25, had escaped in October 2019 and raised the alarm. Mr Van Dorsten suffer...