Teenage Dutch Sailor Laura Dekker Vows Never to Return Home
21st January 2012
“From the moment my plans became public, youth care and other government organisations tried to stop me. They asked the judge to take me away from my father and to lock me up in a secure clinic! By doing this they tried to stop me from sailing,” she wrote.
Girl’s an American at heart.
Her lawyer Peter de Lange said that the latest row was a misunderstanding based on her blogging in recent weeks that she needed to concentrate on sailing not school work while she battled high waves and winter gales.
“Who knows, maybe they’ll be waiting for her with handcuffs at the finish line,” he said.
Welcome to the new world order, kid.