The horror of Münster: The police could blow up a child pornography ring. The extent of the deeds is appalling. A kindergarten teacher is also suspected!
- A new shocking case of child abuse has been uncovered.
- The main suspect is said to be a 27-year-old from Münster .
- The suspects are accused of multiple serious sexual abuse by at least three boys.
Update of June 7: Serious abuse of small children, perpetrators in several federal states and large amounts of technically encrypted video recordings: Investigators in North Rhine-Westphalia have uncovered a pedophile network and arrested eleven suspects nationwide. Seven of the accused are in custody. So far, three children have been identified as victims.
According to the police and the public prosecutor , the boys are five, ten and twelve years old . In some cases, they were said to have been sexually abused by several men - in one case by their own father, in another by their partner.
The main suspect is a 27-year-old IT technician from Münster. Investigators found highly professional technical equipment for video recording. They secured more than 500 terabytes of adeptly encrypted material. After evaluating the first data, the police and public prosecutors believe that only a small proportion of the alleged crimes have been reported. Much of the data still needs to be decrypted.
The suspect's mother is said to have worked as an educator until her arrest. "We informed the management of the daycare center," said Chief Prosecutor Martin Botzenhardt of the German Press Agency. At the moment, however, there is no evidence of actions by the 45-year-old in kindergarten. The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) had previously reported on the workplace of women. Your gazebo in Münster is currently the main crime scene.
The result of the investigation so far after around three and a half weeks is probably only the tip of the iceberg, said the head of the investigation, Joachim Poll, and Chief Prosecutor Botzenhardt on Saturday. The investigators should have seen "incredible" pictures , said Poll. Munster's police chief Rainer Furth said: "Even the most experienced crime officers have reached the limits of what is humanly tolerable and far beyond."
In the gazebo in Münster, four men are said to have alternately raped a five- and a ten-year-old boy for hours, and partially filmed the acts. The 27-year-old main suspect is said to have given the men the ten-year-old son to his partner. The second victim was reportedly the son of a 30-year-old suspect from Staufenberg (Hesse). The children are said to have been anesthetized before the deeds. The main suspect offered pictures and videos of the crimes on the Darknet.
The other accused, against whom the arrest warrant was issued, are reportedly men from Hanover (35 years old), Schorfheide in Brandenburg (42), Kassel (43) and Cologne (41) as well as the 45 year old mother of the Prime suspect. Accordingly, she is a user of the gazebo in the children's house district. She is said to have given the keys to her son and accepted the child's sexual abuse.
The horror is said to have taken place in this gazebo in Münster.
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Eleven Arrests After Severe Child Abuse: Police Shock With Violent Details: “Abominable Dirt”
Update from June 6, 7:10 p.m .: Investigators at a press conference informed about the crimes at noon. There you could see how much the experienced investigators have to suffer from the above. Münster's police chief Rainer Furth said right at the start of the press conference:
“When police presidents speak at press conferences, it is usually a matter of communicating outstanding investigative success. I am concerned with something else.
I am concerned with the suffering of the victims. It's about expressing horror at what happened and what my employees found in just three weeks. Even the most experienced crime officers have reached the limits of what is humanly tolerable and far beyond. The legal language reads: 11 arrests and seven arrest warrants for serious sexual abuse of children. This completely inadequately reflects the dimension of what really happened - in the midst of us, in our society. Who actually cares about the suffering, misery, martyrdom of the children - committed by perpetrators, fathers, and in some cases by the children's mothers? And who cares about the men and women in the police force who have to evaluate hundreds of terabytes of this hideous filth? ”
Münster: Further shocking details known
Update from June 6, 6:50 p.m .: As the picture reports ( article behind a payment barrier ), all three minors of abuse victims are related to the suspected perpetrators - although not in the direct line in the case of the main suspect's partner's ten-year-old son. The five-year-old was the son of the accused from Staufenberg, the twelve-year-old was the nephew of a suspect from Kassel.
The name of the main suspect is with Adrian V. specified. The mother of the 27-year-old, who is said to have known about the deeds, is therefore called Carina V.
Münster: Bunk beds in a gazebo are monitored by video
The gazebo , in which the despicable acts were committed, is therefore equipped with video-monitored double-decker beds, and its cameras are also attached to the outside of the building . Adrian V. is an IT technician, so he knows about such installations. The picture quotes a neighbor of the garden: “Adrian, the wife and the son were often in the garden. The boy often drove through the facility with the Kettcar, he was remarkably friendly and polite. ”
However, it was also striking that Adrian V. had used a very strict tone with the boy . The ten-year-old had to ask for permission just because of minor details. In addition, he was not allowed to leave the parcel and play with other children when there was trouble.
Münster: Black VW bus from main suspect parks overnight at allotment colony
Nobody could imagine how much the boy really had to suffer from the victim. Even if neighbors refer to Adrian V.'s black VW bus , which often stood in the allotment garden colony's parking lot overnight. In addition, they would have noticed that the 27-year-old had to make high payments - because he was tapping into a third-party power line ?
Adrian V. apparently took care of the technical equipment for spreading the crimes . "He was incredibly knowledgeable about it, did everything professionally with the Internet," said neighbors of the picture . The investigators partially discovered the technical equipment for the recordings in a false ceiling . According to the paper, almost 600 terabytes of material have already been secured, but little by little , more and more data carriers with hideous content would be found .
Update of June 6, 5:52 p.m .: The youth welfare office of the city of Münster had contact with the family of one of the victims of the abuse case in North Rhine-Westphalia. The family was known to the authorities from 2015 to 2016, "because the social child father was noticed because of the possession and distribution of pornographic data ," said the city. During this time, the youth welfare office had had contact with the family.
In 2015, the family court saw no reason to take the child out of parental responsibility. Münster Mayor Markus Lewe (CDU) said: "We can only make an assessment if the facts are sufficiently clarified ."
Lewe was dismayed by the abuse case. "I am terrified that our city was apparently the scene of such terrible acts," he said.
Münster: House searches and raids against child porn ring
First report from June 6th:
There have been several house searches and raids in the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg, Hesse and Lower Saxony . The police managed to strike an important blow against a child pornography ring . The officers arrested a total of eleven suspects. The public prosecutor's office in Münster , together with the police, informed about the events in a press conference on Saturday.
Münster: Eleven arrests after raid against child pornography ring
However, the main suspect is said to be a 27-year-old from Münster . The victims are said to be three boys between the ages of five and twelve. According to the police, one of these victims is the son of the partner of the 27-year-old from Münster. The mother of the 27-year-old is also a suspect. The suspects are accused of having sexually abused the boys several times, and of making video recordings of these acts and sharing them via the Darknet. The three boys are now in the care of the responsible youth welfare offices. The 27-year-old was sentenced to suspended sentences twice in 2016 and 2017 for making child pornography accessible. He was also committed to therapy, which he had also completed.
The remaining detainees are a 30-year-old man from Staufenberg near Gießen, a 35-year-old from Hanover, a 42-year-old from Schorfheide in Brandenburg, a 43-year-old from Kassel and a 41-year-old from Cologne. In addition, there is the 45-year-old mother of the 27-year-old alleged main perpetrator, who is said to have known about the deeds and to have actively supported them.
The press conference on the investigation into serious sexual abuse of children in Münster.
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When examining a gazebo in Münster, in which a large part of these abuses are said to have occurred, the officials found an air-conditioned server room . According to current knowledge, the investigators were able to secure over 500 terabytes of data and material there. There the main suspect apparently saved the pictures he had made of the abuses. The prosecutor described the technical equipment as very professional. So far, it is not yet clear whether and to what extent the data stored there has been distributed in the Darknet .
There is also new knowledge in the case of Maddie McCann, who has been missing since 2007. The traces lead to a suspect from Germany.
Münster: blow to Kinderporno-Ring - experienced crime officers reach their limits
"Even experienced detective officers have reached the limits of what can be endured and far beyond," said Münster police chief Rainer Furth about the case at a press conference on Saturday. Furth was visibly touched by the events and was horrified. He spoke of "misery, suffering, martyrdom" that the children had lived through. He was also sorry for the investigators , who should have evaluated hundreds of terabytes of "this hideous dirt". It is about sexual acts of the heaviest kind, which were committed by four adult men. "You can't imagine it," he said.
The events are reminiscent of the cases of abuse at a campsite in Lügde (NRW).
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