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A 10-year-old girl is killed in a children's home in Wunsiedel.
An 11-year-old is said to have killed her.
A 26-year-old defendant confesses to raping the girl.
Wunsiedel - After the violent death of a ten-year-old girl in a children's home in Wunsiedel, a man is on trial on charges of rape.
At the start of the trial at the Hof regional court, the now 26-year-old admitted the crimes he was accused of - his defense lawyer read out a corresponding statement on Thursday (February 1st).
The 26-year-old is not charged with the girl's killing.
The investigators assume that the girl was killed by a then eleven-year-old boy who cannot be prosecuted.
Dead girl in Wunsiedel: 11-year-old presumably responsible for her death
In the statement, the defendant stated that on the night of April 4, 2023, he climbed into the children's home in Wunsiedel through an open window in order to steal valuables there.
Since he had previously lived there himself, he knew his way around the building.
He was then discovered in the home by a boy - and the boy asked him to show him how to satisfy himself.
He did that.
Later, the boy brought the girl from the home and pushed her onto a bed in a room.
In his lawyer's statement, the defendant further stated that he then raped the girl.
He then fled the children's home.
At no time did he want the girl to die and he did not ask the boy to do so.
Girl found dead in bed in Wunsiedel: 26-year-old admits rape
The girl was found dead in a bed at the children's home the next morning.
Police investigations revealed that the then 11-year-old killed the girl during an argument after the incident that night.
He cannot be prosecuted due to his age.
The public prosecutor's office also accuses the defendant of five burglaries between May 2022 and April 2023.
The German is said to have stolen, among other things, construction machinery worth around 16,000 euros.
In one case he also set a fire to cover his tracks.
The man also fully admitted this, with the exception of the arson.
According to his lawyer, the defendant initially does not want to provide any further information.
The parents of the girl who was killed, as well as the then eleven-year-old, are co-plaintiffs in the trial.
(dpa)