OK, quick bit of background. About 6 years ago I befriended the granddaughter of my German neighbours whilst living in Belgium.
Her parents are a disaster zone. Her mother routinely fucks off to festivals for days on end, no money left for food etc., and I suspect she uses heroin. Her older brother is physically a large man who has beaten the girl and actually broken her bones - mother made her tell the hospital she "fell". The breaks were questioned at school (tipped off by the hospital) - same story given.
Father has since re-married and the girl was living in that "stable" household with another teenage girl - an older sister if you will.
When things were very bad a few years ago I told her that I would come and get her any time she needed me to and that when she was 16 she could come. I contacted child protection in Cologne but because I didn't have enough information to give them, they didn't have enough to track her down properly.
Fast forward to today when she contacted me to say that she's been hospitalised again. This time for "stomach problems" which the doctors say are psychosomatic due to stress at home. I discovered too that the father now has a new girlfriend and they're living there - so the once stable environment has changed once again.
She's too proud to ask me to "rescue" her but I suspect that the situation is serious. I have invited her to stay at the end of the month and told her she's more than welcome to come beforehand if she fancies it. I don't want to frighten her off.
I now live in The Netherlands. Does anyone have any idea of how this might be possible for her to move here with me to be SAFE? We are very close to the German border and she'd still be able to attend a German school. She is now either 15 or 16 - I'm not quite sure. I'm a British citizen if that makes any difference at all.