Friday, November 28, 2008

Acquittal: workers sat innocent 18 months in prison

The Landgericht Goettingen said the workers on Friday in a repeat process from the serious accusation of sexual abuse of a two-year-old boy released. The court followed the identically worded requests from prosecutor and defender. After the man at the end of April 2007 because of suspected abuse in custody have had the district Brunswick him to five years in prison. The Federal Court had revoked the verdict and the case for renewed negotiations referred to Göttingen.

That as long as he sat in custody, the man himself had to take responsibility, said the presiding judge in the sentencing justification. The 48-year-old had initially confessed to the police, the son of acquaintances to have mistreated. Therefore stand him for the detention suffered no compensation. Although the workers soon revoked, had the district Brunswick in its ruling based on that confession. The Göttingen judge came after the questioning of witnesses and experts to the conclusion that this confession was not plausible. Not the accused, but the father of the child's stepfather, the two-year-olds already often mistreated had come as a possible perpetrator.

Investigations against stepfather?

The then 25-year-old stepdaughter father had the boy in April 2007 for the friendly with him briefly left workers, cigarette because he get money and wanted change. The indictment was assumed that the 48-year-old child in the time sexually abused and beaten has. Lenses and traces of an expert's opinion that such an approach to the Vienenburg do not, however, speak against the perpetrator, said the presiding judge. Now the prosecutor is examining whether it violates the stepfather initiating an investigation.

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