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The main defendant (front right) sitting in a courtroom of the regional court (archive picture)
Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa
In the abuse complex in Münster, the 28-year-old main defendant was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the serious sexual abuse of children.
For the time after that, the Münster district court ordered the IT technician to be held in preventive detention due to the risk of repetition.
He is considered a key figure in the trial with four other defendants, which ended on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old alleged main culprit in the so-called abuse complex in Münster is accused of repeatedly raping the now eleven-year-old son of his partner himself and leaving him to other men for their cruel sexualized acts of violence.
The men also accused - a 36-year-old from Hanover, a 31-year-old from Staufenberg in Hesse and a 43-year-old from Schorfheide in Brandenburg - were sentenced to long prison terms of between ten and 14 years.
In addition, it ordered subsequent preventive detention in all cases.
The public prosecutor's office and accessory prosecution had demanded imprisonment between ten and 14 years for the Germans and subsequent preventive detention due to the risk of repetition.
The defense called for milder sentences, and in the case of the accused woman, the lawyer pleaded for acquittal.
kha / dpa / AFP