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The defendant was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2018
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In a new trial in the case of years of abuse of a boy from Staufen near Freiburg, preventive detention was ordered against the accused.
That was decided by the Freiburg Regional Court.
The Spaniard had already been sentenced to ten years in prison in 2018 for serious rape of the boy, who was nine at the time of the crime, child abuse and forced prostitution.
Preventive detention was waived at that time.
However, the public prosecutor subsequently obtained before the Federal Court of Justice that the possibility of preventive detention had to be decided again.
The courts do not impose preventive detention as a punishment, but as a preventive measure: It is intended to protect the population from perpetrators who have served their actual sentence for a particularly serious crime but are still considered dangerous.
The crimes against the boy from Staufen had become known in January 2018 and had caused horror nationwide.
The mother and her boyfriend had raped the child for over two years and given it to other men from home and abroad for money for serious sexual violence.
The Spaniard had confessed to what he had done.
There were eight judgments in the case.
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