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Defendant in court on March 7: Sentenced to four years in prison
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A 35-year-old has been jailed for four years for raping a then 12-year-old girl in a forest near Munich.
The Munich I District Court sentenced him, among other things, to rape and serious sexual abuse of children.
The man confessed to the crime at the start of the trial and asked for "pardon for something actually unforgivable".
The now convicted had "announced his act in drastic, obscene and degrading words," said the court at the verdict.
The Chamber came to the conclusion that he had consciously decided to implement the fantasy of rape he had expressed in a chat on a child.
With the act, the accused "wanted to experience his own appreciation through devaluation and objectification of others in order to gain power and control, at least for a few minutes".
Nine men are said to have abused girls
The case is part of a larger abuse complex in which a total of nine men are accused of molesting the now 13-year-old girl.
One of them, a 33-year-old, was sentenced to four years and ten months in prison in Munich in February, while another is being tried at the Munich District Court.
According to the public prosecutor, the alleged main perpetrator, who is on trial in Flensburg, wrote to the girl via Snapchat in January 2021, posing as a 17-year-old.
After a few days of intensive chatting, he is said to have asked the child if he would be willing to have sex with other men.
As the public prosecutor explains, the girl is said to have consented because she had developed feelings for the chat partner – and out of “childlike curiosity”.
The investigations against the alleged main perpetrator had started because the defendant is said to have offered sexual acts with her to a classmate of the then twelve-year-old via social networks, as a court spokesman in Flensburg said.
The classmate had reported this to the school.
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