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The Offenburg district court has sentenced a man to four years in prison who had abused his three-year-old daughter himself and offered it for abuse on the Internet.
According to a spokeswoman, the 39-year-old was found guilty, among other things, of serious sexual abuse of children and the production of child pornography.
According to earlier information from the public prosecutor's office and the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) Baden-Württemberg, the investigators received a tip in July 2021 that a child was being offered via a platform.
The father was then taken into custody.
Further proceedings initiated
Investigators searched his apartment in the Ortenau district and secured child and youth pornography files and other evidence.
When evaluating cell phones and storage media, the officials found evidence of other potential abusers.
Therefore, according to the information, the LKA took over the case and has since initiated several procedures.
During the trial before the youth chamber, the accused essentially confessed and said that he was sorry, as the court spokeswoman said.
His defense attorney had requested that the accused be sentenced to a total prison sentence of not more than two years on probation.
The public prosecutor's office, on the other hand, had pleaded for six years and three months.
The co-plaintiff's representative agreed.
The verdict is not yet legally binding.
The man can appeal against it.
bbr/dpa