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In the abuse complex in Münster, the public prosecutor's office is demanding 14 years' imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention for the main defendant, Adrian V.
The indictment accuses the 28-year-old IT technician of 32 serious sexual abuse.
He is said to have abused the son of his partner himself and repeatedly brought him to other men for similar acts.
On the 48th day of the trial, the public prosecutor's office also spoke out in favor of imprisonment for other defendants, as a spokesman for the Münster Regional Court announced.
According to the will of the prosecution, a man from Hanover, 36, is to be jailed for ten years, a 43-year-old from Schorfheide in Brandenburg for eleven years and six months and a 31-year-old from Staufenberg in Hesse for twelve years.
Prime Suspect's mother charged with aiding and abetting
As with the main culprit, the public prosecutor's office calls for the men to be held in preventive detention.
The plea was made in camera to protect the victims.
The amount of the required prison sentence is derived from the different number of alleged offenses.
In the case of mother Vs, who was also accused, the prosecution assumes that she knew of a joint abuse of the now eleven-year-old boy by the men on a weekend last year.
According to the will of the public prosecutor's office, she is to be sentenced to six years in prison for aiding and abetting.
Five men have already been convicted
The trial will continue on Thursday with the sub-plaintiffs pleading.
The regional court in Münster intends to announce a judgment at the end of June or beginning of July.
Five men have already been sentenced to prison terms in the complex.
In total, the investigators identified more than 50 suspects, around 30 of whom are currently in custody.
The Münster abuse complex is one of three major abuse series that investigators in North Rhine-Westphalia have tracked down in recent years.
Previously, the child abuse that had remained undetected for years at a campsite in Lügde and the abuse complex in Bergisch Gladbach triggered nationwide horror.
bbr / dpa / AFP
