2023-10-31 05:05:47
A 37-year-old from the Vöcklabruck district will stand trial in Wels from November 7th for numerous serious sexual offenses against children. He is said to have sexually assaulted three girls in Upper Austria. He is also accused of having collected thousands of child abuse depictions since 2016 and of commissioning and viewing abuse of victims in Southeast Asia in live chats. A verdict is scheduled for November 14th and is expected to be closed to the public.
The man is said to have raped a child and seriously sexually abused two others in Upper Austria. The girls, who were four, seven and nine years old when the crimes began, came from the 37-year-old’s circle of friends. According to the prosecution, the rape of one child began in 2013 and the severe sexual abuse of the other two continued until 2019. The accused is therefore charged with rape, serious child abuse and abuse of authority. In addition, he also has to answer for incitement to serious child abuse and depictions of child abuse. He is said to have even commissioned acts of abuse in the Philippines so that he could watch them via live chat. If convicted, you face a prison sentence of two to ten years.
The case got rolling because, according to the Wels public prosecutor’s office, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, an authority in the USA to which suspected cases are reported by Internet platforms, filed a report in Austria. At that time it was about five depictions of child abuse in a cloud storage. It subsequently emerged that the 37-year-old had commissioned women in the Philippines to abuse children in front of the running web cam in exchange for money. This abuse is said to have taken place until 2022. After initially denying the crime, the man finally confessed.
During the course of the investigation, detectives found relevant recordings of one of the girls affected in Upper Austria on the 37-year-old’s cell phone, which led to the other two. In none of these cases had a complaint been filed before, but the suspicion was confirmed in the adversarial interviews, according to the public prosecutor’s office.
The trial starts on November 7th, with a second date planned for November 14th. Then a judgment should also be made. Exclusion of the public is to be expected.
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