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A three-year-old girl succumbed to abuse last year, dying allegedly at the hands of her mother. Her death leaves a trail of negligence by Dutch youth care services, but will a damning report lead to adequate change?Three suspects will face justice in several months time
The victim of regular abuse, the lifeless body of three-year-old Savanna was found in the boot of her mother's car last September.
She was the victim of failure; the shortcomings of those meant to protect her. A report condemned the Council for the Protection of Children and the Youth Care service in North Holland on Thursday.
The Youth Care Inspectorate report said the council, youth care services and the child abuse reporting office AMK made crucial errors, pointing out that it was known at least two-and-a-half years prior to Savanna's death that there were problems with the family.
In response to a report lodged with the AMK indicating that Savanna was the victim of neglect, malnutrition and possible abuse, the girl was placed into foster care in February 2002.
Six months later, Savanna was reunited with her mother — who had moved from Nieuwkoop to Alphen aan den Rijn. But signals of abuse were being detected right up until her death on 20 September 2004.
Gruesome discovery
Police found Savanna's body after her mother, Sonja de J., and her partner, Mario B., were pulled over for driving on a road closed to traffic at night near the eastern Dutch town of Holten. A shovel was also found in the vehicle.
But De J. denied in a pre-trial hearing in The Hague Court last December that she killed Savanna, who is alleged to have died after a face cloth or sock was forced down her throat. Her mouth was then allegedly taped shut.
Both De J. and B. are accused of locking the toddler up in her bedroom and letting her choke to death and of trying to dispose of her body. De J. has allegedly confessed she was planning to bury her daughter's body.
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