A court sentenced 42-year-old dance teacher Kurt F. from Zwaag to 2½ years in prison for sexually abusing two underage girls between 2010 and 2015 at his dance school in Hoorn. The sentence was reduced from the three years imposed previously because the appeal proceedings took too long. The court also upheld a five-year ban on teaching dance, citing an unacceptable risk to underage girls should he resume teaching minors; the ban does not take effect immediately.

F. denied guilt on appeal, but the court found sufficient evidence. A mistake in the earlier ruling had allowed him to continue teaching while the appeal was pending, according to a single report.