crime
Unconscious woman raped – preventive detention
A 38-year-old man was convicted of raping an unconscious woman. Two more victims were revealed during the trial. Now he has been found guilty of being a dangerous serial offender.
Four months after being found guilty of raping an unconscious high school student, a 38-year-old man was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for further crimes. The Berlin district court also ordered the man’s preventive detention. He is a danger to the general public.
The business economist and former managing director was found guilty of four counts of rape and violating the most private areas of life by taking pictures. “We assume a deeply ingrained sexual preference plagued with fetishism and sadism,” said chief judge Thorsten Braunschweig. He is a serial sexual predator.
The victim only learned of the crime years later
The crimes between February 2020 and June 2021 which harmed two women, now aged 29 and 47, who were then in a relationship with the defendant, were discovered through further cellphone analysis during the first trial of the 38-year-old man.
Public prosecutors are seeking a sentence of nine years in prison and subsequent preventive detention. This was echoed by lawyers for the two women, who only learned this spring through secured video footage that they had been victims.
Defense attorneys argued for a suspended sentence. Like most trials, the defense was held behind closed doors. The defendant confessed, the defense said.
Verdict at first trial: also five and a half years
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The man was also sentenced to five and a half years in prison at the first trial in mid-July. The court was convinced that in April 2022 he encouraged a 20-year-old alcoholic to take various drugs and took advantage of his isolated condition to carry out one-sided sexual acts.
He uttered misogynistic words at the unconscious body of the high school graduate and made several video recordings. These two decisions are not yet legally binding.
dpa
