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Convicted Sex Offender Escapes From Psychiatric Facility in Groningen; Manhunt Ongoing

Summary by NL Times
Dutch police are urgently searching for 41-year-old sex offender Anne Dijkstra, a TBS detainee held under a Dutch court-ordered psychiatric treatment system for serious offenders. He disappeared Monday morning during supervised work in Groningen. According to the police, he was last confirmed in Hoogezand at 11:11 a.m. after making a bank transaction and has not been seen since. Authorities have officially designated him as urgently wanted.

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A patient under a TBS order escaped in Groningen this morning. The man in question is 41 and was sentenced in 2011 to TBS with compulsory treatment for a number of sexual offenses. The patient was being treated at the Mesdag Forensic Psychiatric Center in Groningen. He absconded this morning during "supervised work" outside the clinic, the police report. At 11:11 a.m., he withdrew money from an ATM in Hoogezand, but all trace of him has been los…

·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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It has actually been quite a while, but yet another TBS patient has escaped. Anne Dijkstra (41) was so disappointed that his parents called him ANNE that he went down the wrong path and was convicted of 'a number of sexual offenses'. And now he has escaped, so the police are 'urgently' looking for him. So urgently, in fact, that his name (Anne, that is), surname, and photo have been thrown onto the internet. Anne Dijkstra withdrew money from an …

The police are searching for an escaped TBS patient. The 41-year-old man escaped from supervision during supervised work in Groningen. He was sentenced to TBS with compulsory treatment in 2011 for a number of sexual offenses, the police report. He was detained at the Mesdag Forensic Psychiatric Center in Groningen.

·Apeldoorn, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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rd.nl broke the news in Apeldoorn, Netherlands (Kingdom of the) on Monday, March 30, 2026.
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