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Defendant in the courtroom (archive)
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In the so-called wolf mask trial, the Munich Regional Court I sentenced the defendant to twelve years' imprisonment and placement in preventive detention for raping a girl who was eleven at the time.
The 45-year-old had admitted to camouflaging himself with a wolf mask in June 2019 and raping the girl.
The court sees it that way too.
"He was prepared for the deed," said the presiding judge.
The court assumes that the man targeted his victim.
He is said to have previously observed and photographed the child in the S-Bahn.
The man set off that day with the intention of abusing the girl.
For this purpose he also had the wolf mask with him.
After the crime, he threatened to kill the girl and her parents if she called the police.
Extensive confession by the accused
The prosecutor had demanded 14 years imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention. The lawyer of the man, who believes that she is incapable of guilt and who had requested placement in a psychiatric hospital, said in the process that his client had observed and photographed the girl in advance. But the decision to rape the child was made spontaneously: »There was a certain back and forth: Should I? Shouldn't I? ”Otherwise, the defendant largely admitted the allegations about his lawyer.
The case raised the issue of rehabilitation of sex offenders.
Because the defendant was in an easing stage of the penal system.
He had several criminal records for sexually abusing children.
According to the public prosecutor's office, he is said to have been noticed with sexual offenses in his youth and was also convicted of assault.
On the day of the act, the man was allowed to drive unaccompanied from his assisted living community to his work place.
According to the prosecutor, this was the only time in his daily routine when he was not under supervision.
In this way, he admits, he fell upon the child.
"The cause of how this happened must be critically questioned," says his lawyer Adam Ahmed.
»What control measures were there?
What technical discussions were there? "
Offenders can be sentenced to imprisonment, which is served in penal institutions, or to prison in specially equipped psychiatric clinics and rehab centers.
These are also known as forensic clinics.
This can apply to drug addicts or people with mental illness, for example.
bbr / dpa
