Dave De K. who kidnapped Belgian toddler Dean (4) escaped psychiatric hospitalization | Inland

De K. disappeared last week with the 4-year-old Dean, whom he would look after, and turned out to have moved to the Netherlands. This caused great concern to the police, because the Belgian had been in prison for ten years from 2008 for beating a 2-year-old boy, resulting in death. De K. was arrested on Monday in Meerkerk and, according to Belgian media, led the police to the body of Dean, which was found in a parking lot on Neeltje Jans in Zeeland.

There was no place for De K. in a psychiatric institution after his conviction, Van Quickenborne said on the Belgian news channel Radio 1. Although the prison insisted on this. According to the minister, the K. served his sentence completely and could therefore no longer be monitored, once a free man.

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Belgium has only had a form of TBS for ten years. There is still far too little psychiatric care for “people with a very serious criminal background”, says Van Quickenborne. They are still “often simply refused.”

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