The rape of an eleven-year-old shocked Munich in the summer of 2019. A man disguised in a wolf mask dragged the child into the bushes and abused it. Now the judgment against the perpetrator is imminent.
Munich – It’s a nightmarish scene: a man in a wolf mask pulls a girl into a bush in Munich in broad daylight and rapes the child.
It comes out quickly: The alleged perpetrator is a man with a relevant criminal record who was admitted to psychiatry after several sexual offenses and whose conditions had only been relaxed shortly before. Today – more than two years after the act in June 2019 – the verdict against the confessed accused is due to fall.
Relevant criminal record
The public prosecutor’s office demands 14 years imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention. The 45-year-old has admitted that he disguised himself with a wolf mask and that he dragged a girl into the bushes and raped him in broad daylight. According to the indictment, he ambushed the then eleven-year-old in June 2019.
It is a man with a relevant criminal record who was admitted to psychiatry after several sexual offenses. It was only shortly before the crime that its conditions were relaxed.
The defense assumes – unlike the public prosecutor’s office – a reduced guilty capacity due to a mental illness and called for placement in a psychiatric hospital in their plea on Friday.
Targeted victims
Prosecutors assume that the man may have targeted his victim. As the indictment read out at the start of the trial, he is said to have observed and photographed the then eleven-year-old child in the S-Bahn. The prosecution also assumes that the man set off that day with the intention of abusing the girl and that he also had the wolf mask with him for this purpose. According to the investigators, he threatened to kill the girl and her parents if she called the police.
The man’s lawyer admitted that his client had observed and photographed the girl in advance. The man denied the intention to act. The decision to rape the child was made spontaneously: “There was a certain back and forth: Should I? Shouldn’t I? ”Otherwise, the defendant largely admitted the allegations about his lawyer.
The perpetrator’s requirements relaxed
The case has raised the issue of rehabilitation of sex offenders from the start. Because the defendant was in an easing stage of the penal system. He had several criminal records for sexually abusing children. According to the public prosecutor’s office, he is said to have been noticed with sexual offenses in his youth and has also already been convicted of assault.
On the day of the act, he was allowed to drive unaccompanied from his assisted living community to his work place. According to the prosecutor, this was the only time in his daily routine when he was not under supervision. In this way, he admits, he fell upon the child. “The cause of how it came about must be critically questioned,” says his lawyer Adam Ahmed. “What control measures were there? What technical discussions were there? “
Offenders can be sentenced to imprisonment, which is served in prisons, or to prison in specially equipped psychiatric clinics and rehab centers. These are also known as forensic clinics. This can apply to drug addicts or people with mental illness, for example. There are 14 institutions in the Free State.
At the end of 2019, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs, a total of 2,884 people were in prison in the Free State. In the previous year there were 2772, at the end of 2017 there were 2489. Those who were accommodated because of a mental illness spent an average of 5.42 years in psychiatry in 2019. Addicts stayed there for an average of 1.42 years. dpa
