laura dekker
Teenage sailor Laura Dekker, who made headlines when she went to court to fight for the right to sail solo around the world, has been missing since Friday, Dutch police said.
Utrecht police spokesman Bernhard Jens says the 14-year-old's boat is still moored at its usual berth and she appears to have left her father's home on her own. Police have alerted neighbouring countries to monitor airports.However, he says that it is a health authorities Dekker.
In August this year, Dekker was put under the protection of the law to stop it off in an effort to become the youngest person to sail alone around the world.
Judge Laura Dekker struck after the parents gave permission for a two-year journey on board their yachts 26 feet guppy.
In the exercise of his mother and father, divorced, lost her right to decide on it for two months and he became the officials of childcare.
He was allowed to live with his father, Dick, however, as the court-appointed psychologists evaluate how difficult it is to afford such a trip.
Laura is expected to beat the record 17-year-old Englishman, Mike Perham, and this year he sailed to England, police briefly detained him and said to his father to help her way home, even if eventually sailed back alone.
Family lawyer Dekker, Peter de Lange, said he expected the journey time to go forward. "(The decision), supports the idea that you're a bad parent if you try to help your child fulfill his dream," he said.
But court spokesman said that if the psychological assessment, a young man can handle the path may be under the constant supervision of the social authorities.
Laura was born in New Zealand, while his parents roundthe-world sailing trips at sea and lived until he was four years.
'I asked my parents if I could - please - from now on,' said the Dutch children's television.
'They know what can happen, and it is not always fun, but I really want to do to my parents saying,' Well, we need you '. "
Besides the physical danger of drowning pirates, experts say, only for so long at such a young age can hinder emotional development.
