A woman who became a prostitute as a young teenager has failed in her efforts to win compensation from her school for failing to alert her parents to her truancy.

Maria Mosterd, who has written a best-selling book about her experiences, came under the influence of a teenage pimp in her first year of secondary school in 2001 and worked as a prostitute for several years.
It was three years before the school alerted truancy officers to the fact the girl was rarely at school. Mosterd also claims teachers were aware she was in trouble and that girls from the school were working as prostitutes.
She went to court last year claiming €50,000 in damages and a further cash sum for the delays to her education.
The education sector’s complaints board earlier backed her claims and criticised the school in Zwolle for its poor policy on absenteeism and the lax approach of teaching staff.
On Wednesday, the court in Zwolle backed the school, saying it had not compromised its duty of care. Furthermore, the car of minors is primarily the responsibility of the parents, the judges were quoted as saying by the Telegraaf.