• Mayor of the De Wolden municipality Roger de Groot speaks to the press at the police station in AssenThursday after the arrest of the 67-year-old father of the family kept for nearly a decade in a farmhouse and who was found on Tuesday in a house in Ruinerwold. The man is suspected of depriving people of their liberty, harming the health of others and money laundering. The police said they were investigating whether a 'certain belief in faith' was behind the case. | AFP-JIJI
    Mayor of the De Wolden municipality Roger de Groot speaks to the press at the police station in AssenThursday after the arrest of the 67-year-old father of the family kept for nearly a decade in a farmhouse and who was found on Tuesday in a house in Ruinerwold. The man is suspected of depriving people of their liberty, harming the health of others and money laundering. The police said they were investigating whether a "certain belief in faith" was behind the case. | AFP-JIJI

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AMSTERDAM – Dutch police said on Thursday they had arrested a second man on suspicion of “unlawful deprivation of liberty” in the case of a family that had lived in apparent seclusion on a farm for years.

The first suspect was charged earlier on Thursday with unlawful detention and harming others’ health, and will remain in detention for at least two more weeks, prosecutors said.

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