Jeroen reportedly travelled to Mexico to see his daughter Abril after eight months without contact. He had had the child with Edith, who reportedly refused to return to the Netherlands with Abril and then disappeared. Jeroen later went to his former mother-in-law's home with bags of toys, but she refused to let him in and did not accept the gifts. John van den Heuvel and the team of *Kidnapped* became involved in the case.