Dutch media stated the lady had reported the alleged abuse a number of instances. (Representational)
The Hague:
A pair went on trial on Thursday accused of locking their 10-year-old foster daughter in an electrified cage and throwing her downstairs, in a harrowing case that has shocked the Netherlands.
The lady was taken to hospital in Could, unconscious, in a dirty state, with a number of damaged bones and badly malnourished, reportedly weighing simply 22 kilogrammes (50 kilos).
She emerged from her coma in July however is unable to sit down up independently or talk, prosecutors stated because the trial opened in Rotterdam.
They stated she would in all probability want intensive medical look after the remainder of her life.
The couple, named solely as Daisy and John, each 37, stand charged of tried manslaughter for throwing or pushing her down the steps, amongst different fees.
They held their foster daughter captive in the home and abused her for months, prosecutors alleged.
“They locked her in her room, handcuffed her legs and arms and lined her mouth with tape. They positioned her in a selfmade cage with electrical wires connected to it,” the general public prosecutor instructed the courtroom.
Neither suspect was current in courtroom to listen to the accusations.
A lawyer for the couple stated they denied pushing her down the steps, arguing that she jumped down the steps herself.
The case of the “Foster Lady From Vlaardingen”, the harbour city simply outdoors Rotterdam the place she lived, has been headline information within the Netherlands, with query over how authorities might have missed the alleged abuse.
Dutch media stated the lady had reported the alleged abuse a number of instances.
She was forcibly faraway from her organic mother and father after struggling abuse at their fingers.
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