Dutch farm case: Father beat children to ward off `bad spirits`, court hears
(WorldNews Europe)

Prosecutors told the hearing that one child was tied up by his hands and feet as punishment, while another was forced to spend an entire summer in a doghouse when he was 12 years old. `The children all speak of very serious physical punishment if their father thought there was a `bad spirit` in them,` they said. `That happened from a very young age, four or five...