The Mainz Regional Court has sentenced a former educator to three years and three months in prison for sexual abuse and possession of child pornography.
This was announced by the regional court's media office on request on Tuesday.
In eleven cases, between February 2019 and February 2021, the educator is said to have cheated on children entrusted to him in various daycare centers.
Mainz - Further details were not disclosed.
The judgment is final.
The trial against the 56-year-old Mainz resident, initially scheduled for four days, was held in camera after the defense attorney had requested this before the indictment was read out.
Intimate details of his client's sex life would have to be discussed, it was said at the start of the trial, to which the educator had appeared with a hood pulled down over his face and hidden behind a folder in handcuffs to protect himself from cameras.
In three cases he is said to have immorally touched children and in other cases violated their “right to sexual self-determination”.
In these cases, the man is said to have made child pornographic recordings of the daycare children entrusted to him.
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During searches of the defendant's home, numerous child and youth pornographic files were found on laptops and hard drives.
In addition to excluding the public in the case of victims of sexual assault, the Code of Criminal Procedure also provides for this in some cases for “other parties involved in the process” according to Section 171b.
The public prosecutor and the representative of the secondary prosecution, the victim's attorney, had not contested the defense counsel's request.
The quick verdict suggests that extensive evidence was no longer necessary after the 56-year-old was admitted.
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