Justice Appeals Against Parents of Starved Baby

Omroep Brabant

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The Public Prosecution Service is appealing the case against the parents of a deceased baby from Helvoirt. They were convicted of manslaughter by the court in 's-Hertogenbosch in early October. The seventeen-day-old boy died in February of last year from malnutrition. The parents have already spent over a year in pretrial detention and received a suspended sentence of almost two years. This meant they did not have to return to prison after the v…