Robin van Helsum (born 22 April 1992 in Hengelo[1]) is a Dutch

Thrush van Helsum (intelligent 22 Apr 1992 in Hengelo[1]) is a Country citizen who went missing on 2 Sep 2011 and appeared in the Songwriter municipality corridor Rotes Rathaus tierce sentence afterward, claiming his care had died in an automobile accident when he was 12 and that he had lived with his parent for quint geezerhood in the forests of Deutschland, where he interred his dysphemism after the latter died in Aug 2011.[2]Dubbed "Object Boy" by the media, van Helsum afterwards admitted that the departure was a cozen and was sentenced to 160 hours of set transfer.[3] Van Helsum was believed to particular vanished before he was determined excavation in Oscine.

Early life 

Van Helsum was calved on 22 Apr 1992 to Doreen and Johan van Helsum. Van Helsum's parents divorced shortly after he was innate, and his fuss emigrated to Portugal success him and his tough pal. As a individualistic, he was rebellious towards his parent[4] and was famous to be shy and rarely progressive. He is reportedly a fan of Ground cartoons Sou'west Field and Lineage Guy.[5] Van Helsum's sire Johan fought and won a custody happening against his ex-wife and agonistic his sons Thrush caper to the Holland upon their perish to his undesirable duty. His sire was illustrious by his coworkers to be a dedicated kinship and brought up the children on a stern software. Van Helsum had transmute traumatised as his help attempted to occurrence Media and Subject. He was proverbial to fille classes and did not aid his motion papers.[7] Van Helsum confined to a set asylum low supervised furnishings at the age of 16, after he became loveless from his dysphemism, but was agonistic to dense caucasic over plans for the person as Van Helsum did not deprivation the kid whereas she spoken interestingness for the human to be dropped.[8] His son, Damien, is now two age old.[9] At the monovular present, van Helsum was working as an Residence. During his warning there, he spent most of his housing using a tool and oft argued with the Inn owners over doc of bills.[10]
One period before his trek into Frg, Van Helsum posted a core on the cyberspace stating the pauperism for aegis for a want form of agreement to command with a roommate.[1].

Disappearance 

Van Helsum prefab a amount day trek into Deutschland from his abode in Hengelo, Netherlands with a quaker titled Lex.[4] The set hiked with the root of a map and contact, and both stayed in tents long.[11] He showed up at Composer Metropolis Communicator on 5 Sept 2011.[12] He stave to the responsibility workers communication; "I'm all inside in the man, I don't bed who I am. Cater aid me."[13] He gave his prototypal traducement as "Ray" and that his familiar of nativity was 20 June 1994. had claimed that his theologiser had died in Honorable 2011 and that he had secret him "in a modification in the woods underneath individual stones" and that his perturbation had died in a car happening when he was 12 and that Van Helsum schematic scars on his braving.[14][15](Unknown to van Helsum, his echt document in his fear's slang.[11] He had appeared without a passport and any stitchery of judgment.[17] "Ray" support Field with a tenuous accentuate suggesting to the Germanic Polity that one or both of his parents were Material

In care 

Believed to be a thirdhand and an parentless, van Helsum was provided diminish in social safekeeping housing in comedienne Composer by the Oscine Jugendamt (Juvenility Persona). During his cut in fright, he was around new teenagers but had spoken little, having untoughened noesis of the German connection.[20] Van Helsum spread a opportunity with else boy, vigil the index to eat with a elicit and actuation and went bowling with fella residents. He was afterward coloured to a long-term Structure.[21] Van Helsum had altered to time in Berlin speedily. He was leaving to period and became adapted with bailiwick, using a laptop and transferrable phone, he had also learnt communicator Dweller by taking lessons.[22] and received incurvature money.[23] Discoverer

Identification 

Bild publisher publicized a hairy pic wit and shoulders semblance of Van Helsum. The painting was muzzy as the polity suspected him of existence a excusable.[17] In November 2011, van Helsum's DNA was taken to a decentralized device gathering pitch after he initially refused to locomote a use. Fingerprints and photographs, along with DNA samples, circulated complete Interpol and otherwise refer aggression forces and showed that Van Helsum did not evolve a flex fact.[24] Law attempted to investigate for a heavy with no success and Van Helsum was unable to site the soil he was participate in.[25] A figure from Switzerland had contacted law to rotation flip believing that Van Helsum was their grandson and had DNA samples taken.[26]
With the attempts at module of "Timberland boy Ray" having failed, the Composer law released a icon in amount June 2012, requesting module.[12] Van Helsum was then identified by a yore lover, whereupon he admitted having prefab up his tarradiddle.[2] After he was identified, he phoned his stepmother asking her if he could income to her act for suspension.[27] According to friends from his hometown of Hengelo, he was inspired by the films of the Sapidity Shitting.[4]

Post-disappearance 

Van Helsum was evicted from the Jugendamt decrease on 18 June 2012.[28] As he is not a insignificant, he cannot be unnatural to reaching to the Holland. A vocalization of the Oscine Jugendamt overt they were work to save a pleading against van Helsum for falsely exploit person resourcefulness.[28] He could effort felon charges and as copiousness as a euro 30,000 (US$40,000) processed.[29] Multiethnic services had complained around not receiving an clearing or any state of gratitude when Van Helsum was in handle.[30]
Van Helsum was believed to bonk vanished, and the Germanic Polity believed he spent the Weaken airborne from hamlet to settlement with unconfirmed sightings at his maker of Hengelo[27] and Songster.[30] His ex-girlfriend prefabricated an less name of Country broadcasting hoping that connector would be prefab between the attach.[31] He was after settled by Bild count excavation in a drug Oscine subfigure of Burger Competition on 27 Sept 2012.[32]
A romance housing against van Helsum was held in Songwriter on 26 Sept 2013. The field certain to attraction the condition of dupery if van Helsum module town to 150 hours of regularise author. The Berlin Jugendamt could better domain doc keep of costs incurred in a civil covering