As of: February 29, 2024, 2:46 p.m
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A masseur touches several women in their intimate areas while working in a Hamburg wellness facility and rapes two of them.
Now the verdict is in.
Hamburg - In the trial against a masseur for the rape of two customers and a sexual assault in a Hamburg spa, the man was sentenced to a total of three years' imprisonment.
On Thursday, the regional court found it proven that the 37-year-old raped two women while massaging them with his finger between October 2020 and June 2023.
Another woman had unwanted touching in her intimate area during the wellness treatment.
The verdict is not yet legally binding.
The defense announced that it would probably appeal.
The prosecutor had demanded a prison sentence of three years and three months, the defense pleaded for acquittal.
According to the information, the defendant worked as a masseur for around 14 years.
“I never intended to harm anyone,” the man had said in his so-called last word.
“I assumed that everything was intentional the way I did it.”
The chamber saw it differently.
The witnesses' statements were very authentic, said presiding judge Gunnar Helmers.
The defendant took advantage of an element of surprise and shattered the women's basic trust.
Originally charged were two other cases in which the man was said to have been sexually assaulted during the wellness treatment.
But the two proceedings were discontinued on February 12, according to the court.
dpa