Already as a child David G. is said to have experimented with electricity. He is now 30 years old and IT specialist. But electricity continues to determine his life. He should have caused at least 79 girls and young women from all over Germany to inflict life-threatening surges. David G. is said to have watched them on Skype.
Due to attempted murder in 88 cases, David G. has to answer to the 1st Grand Criminal Division of the Landgericht München II. "Socket Sadist" called him a tabloid newspaper. But the case is more complex.
According to SPIEGEL information, the defendant has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. In October, he was transferred from pre-trial detention to a mental hospital. Outside the hall, defense attorney Klaus W. Spiegel says about his client's motive: "It was his attempt to communicate with the environment."
Most suspected victims of David G. were between 15 and 19 years old. The youngest girl was 13, the oldest woman 30 years old, when David G. made her suffer from electrical shock.
The women and girls had searched for jobs on the Internet. David G. is said to have written to her and pretended to be a scientist, doctor or professor. He is said to have claimed to seek participants for a medical study. The experiments with power surges are not dangerous, he assured, it says in the prosecution.
Partly even helped the parents
In order to participate in the study, David G. is said to have promised women an allowance of up to 1,500 euros. Previously, they would have to undergo an aptitude test to test their sensitivity to pain.
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With this apparatus, women are said to have been on the order of the defendant Stromstöße (Archive)
David G. is said to have instructed the girls and women to hunt up to 230 volts through the body. According to the prosecution, one girl at a time made the girls solve the insulation of cables, electrify wires, and hold them against bare feet. He had them put nails into electrical sockets and put electrodes on his temples. He is said to have even managed to help mothers, fathers, life companions of his alleged victims in life-threatening experiments. A father is said to have electro-shocked his 19-year-old daughter on several occasions with the help of an electric shock device. The daughter is said to have suffered massive pain.
Some women are said to have refused to try and act as if they were doing what David G. demanded. Others are said to have repeated the procedure several times at the behest of the defendant. According to the prosecutor, some women suffered convulsions, burns, tachycardia. Some are said to have lost consciousness.
"The victims consistently believed the defendant that he was a scientist and that he would be able to take part in the proposed power tests without danger to their health, which is why they agreed to participate in the power tests," says the prosecutor. He also says, "The defendant was aware that the immediate supply of 230 volts of electric shock was capable of killing people."
A girl came to the hospital - so everything flew open
A 16-year-old from Fürstenfeldbruck also lost consciousness after chasing electricity through her body in January 2018. "After she regained consciousness, she repeated the power supply at least three more times at the defendant's request, and she lost consciousness each time," the prosecutor said. The girl came to the hospital. There the doctors learned about the current experiments. The police were informed. In February 2018 David G. was arrested in his apartment in the Würzburg area.
According to the prosecutor, it should have sexually aroused David G., when his victims were electrocuted. "Both the infliction of electrical pain and bare feet and restraints are a fetish of the accused." David G. recorded the deeds as a video to be able to sexually stimulate again at any time and sell the videos in the so-called Darknet. David G. shakes his head. It's the first time he has reacted in court.
Decreases guilty?
After reading the indictment, his defense lawyer announces a statement for his client. Listeners and journalists do not hear them. At the request of the defense, the public is excluded. The presiding judge Thomas Bott justified it by saying that "the sexual life or intimate wishes" of the accused would come up.
Court psychiatrist Henning Saß has reviewed David G. According to defense counsel Saß has confirmed the diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome. Saß had come in his preliminary report to the conclusion that the accused due to his illness from a significantly reduced control ability is assumed. That would mean that although David G. knew that it was wrong what he was doing, it was very difficult for him to act on that insight and to stop it.
Psychiatrist Sass should assume a high risk of relapse with David G. Only by a lengthy therapy, the danger may be reduced. The court followed the appraiser's assessment and ordered David G's temporary placement in psychiatry. It is an indication that the judges also assume that David G. is only less guilty.
