Eight-year-old traumatized after being punched

Brutal 19-year-olds are sentenced on the second day of the trial.

Eight-year-old victim had to testify in court.

Baldham/Ebersberg

– Two defendants sat before Judge Dieter Kaltbeitzer in the Ebersberg district court with a violent head shake and folded arms.

There, the two 19-year-olds from Markt Schwaben had to answer for allegedly punching an eight-year-old in the face (we reported).

Second day of negotiations

On the first day of the hearing two weeks ago, Judge Kaltbeitzer found it difficult to reconstruct exactly what happened.

The eight-year-old victim, who now testified in court, should provide information.

The charge was preceded by an argument between the two 19-year-olds and the boy at the adventure playground in Baldham.

There the student is said to have run over the paw of the defendant's dog with his scooter.

The 19-year-old is said to have hit the boy in the face with his fist.

A witness saw the incident and intervened.

However, since the Ukrainian does not understand a word of German, the two 19-year-olds gave the woman the middle finger and went back to the boy.

There, the youth snatched the scooter out of the child's hands and threw it into the bushes, while the young woman struck again.

The 19-year-old defendant admitted on the first day of the trial that he gave the Ukrainian woman the middle finger.

Also that he had taken the scooter away from the boy.

Defendants must leave the courtroom

His girlfriend, however, was not so talkative.

She denied hitting the boy: "I don't hit kids," she explained.

Only on the urgent advice of Judge Kaltbeitzer did the accused confess to hitting the boy.

Nevertheless, the public prosecutor demanded that the student be heard as a witness, also on the basis of the medical findings.

Since the eight-year-old was severely traumatized by the incident, the two 19-year-olds had to leave the courtroom for the duration of his testimony.

"I drove my scooter, the dog ran next to me," the boy explained the course of events.

"I didn't touch him," he emphasized.

The young man then attacked him out of nowhere, shouted at him and threw his scooter into the bushes.

"The woman then punched me in the face,"

said the boy, who has been receiving psychological care since the argument.

The couple then insulted the Ukrainian woman standing by before the young man started to hit the student again.

"It hurt a lot," the boy whispered, finding it difficult to talk about the crime.

Judge Dieter Kaltbeizer confronted the two accused with the child's testimony.

Shaking her head and laughing scornfully, the young woman explained that the boy was lying. "But you stood a shot last time," the judge explained in the direction of the young woman.

But suddenly she couldn't remember anything.

"I don't know," she countered further questions from the prosecutor and the judge.

For them, on the other hand, it was clear.

"I believe without a doubt that they hit the boy," Judge Kaltbeitzer said.

fine and imprisonment

In view of the previous convictions of the two accused, the public prosecutor finally demanded a fine of 100 euros for the young man and a weekend detention for the young woman.

Judge Dieter Kaltbeitzer saw this as educationally appropriate and sentenced the couple to the prosecutor's request.

"If there hadn't been a beating on this playground, then why is the boy so traumatised," he explained his decision after the verdict.

You can find more current news from the district of Ebersberg at Merkur.de/Ebersberg.

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