GRONINGEN--DNA tests have shown that the father of the 12-year-old St. Maarten girl that recently delivered a baby in the Netherlands is most probably also the father of the baby. He was arrested Tuesday morning in Groningen.
The Groningen Public Prosecutor's Office announced his arrest on Tuesday. According to the Prosecutor's Office, there are serious indications that the 52-year-old man, also a St. Maartener, sexually abused his daughter.
The Prosecutor's Office was under the impression very soon after the delivery that the father was involved, said a spokesperson. "There were only a few possible scenarios, the girl's father being the father of the baby being one," the spokesperson told the Dutch press agency ANP.
The father has voluntarily submitted DNA to the Dutch police. Shortly after birth, DNA was already taken from the baby girl. The Dutch Forensic Institute NFI in The Hague has compared the father's DNA profile to that of the baby. The outcome shows chances are considerable that the girl's father is also the father of the baby.
The girl, D.W., until now has refused to release the identity of the baby's father. She supposedly got pregnant while spending the summer with family in St. Maarten. Dutch authorities have not heard the girl as they want to grant her as much rest as possible.
The father is being heard by the police. He was arrested at the undercover address where the police took him last week after being besieged by the media. According to the Prosecutor's spokesperson, he has been charged with sexual intercourse with a youngster under the age of 12. He can receive a prison sentence of up to twelve years for this crime.
The Council for Child Protection had already filed a complaint of sexual abuse. Child Services has placed the young mother and her daughter in a foster family so they can get some rest in a safe, quiet and neutral area. The judge will, based on the report by the Council for Child Protection, take a decision shortly on what to do with the 12-year-old and the baby.
There is no clarity as yet whether the young mother and baby will remain together, stated a spokesperson of Child Services. It is also unclear when D.W. returns to school. The young mother was in the last grade of the primary school and had received a pre-university education VWO advice.
Child Services is also taking care of the girl's younger brother. He has been placed in a foster family as well. The brother was initially housed at the undercover address together with the father. The Council for Child Protection doesn't want to give any information about the whereabouts of the mother of the two children.
The young mother is doing relatively well. She is receiving psychiatric help to deal with her trauma. Specific psychiatric assistance for victims of incest was not possible until now because the girl refused to say who the father was.
Pupils of De Heerdstee in Groningen, the school which the 12-year-old attended, were informed about the arrest of the girl's father and the fact that the man probably fathered the child on Tuesday. Director Wim Moes told teachers the news immediately after the arrest. "They remained silent and were obviously overwhelmed," the director said.
D.W. delivered a healthy baby girl on March 22 during a school trip in a natural area just outside Groningen with the assistance of ambulance personnel. She said she didn't know that she was pregnant.
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