Ruinerwold

Gerrit Jan van Dorsten, 67, subjected the youngsters who were found on the farm in the village of Ruinerwold in October to 'very serious physical punishment' when he thought they had been made 'unclean'.

The first public hearing in the Ruinerwold case is scheduled for Tuesday.

Before the family moved to the farm in Ruinerwold, they had reportedly stayed at a caravan park where the children were filmed performing cult rituals including walking in circles.

In a statement released on Thursday, the relatives of Van Dorsten revealed their 'dismay' at the events in Ruinerwold.

It came to light when police raided a farmhouse on the outskirts of the town of Ruinerwold, 80 miles northeast of Amsterdam.

On Thursday a meeting was held for the residents of Ruinerwold, to update them about what is going on in the investigation.

The family of Gerrit Jan van D., the father who was found living in a hidden room on a farm in Ruinerwold with six of his children, is dismayed by the events surrounding Van D., they said in a statement to RTL Nieuws.

The police discovered a father living with his six children in an 'end of times' bunker on a farm in Ruinerwold.

This was simply captioned 'Ruinerwold'.