Child abuse: 20 months partially for father
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A 34-year-old man who is said to have sexually abused his year-old daughter was sentenced to 20 months of partial imprisonment, five months of which are unconditional, in a trial at the Salzburg Regional Court.
According to the indictment, in May 2019 the father took photos of the sleeping child of the past and made them available online to a pedophile from Germany. He is also said to have saved numerous child porn files. The judgment is not final.
The accused confessed
The suspect was registered with a chat group that exchanged child pornography. In 2019, he is said to have described the abuse of his then four-year-old daughter and uploaded photos in a chat with a German perpetrator who was finally sentenced to a prison term of twelve years with subsequent preventive detention. The allegedly one of the main perpetrators of the German abuse complex Bergisch Gladbach.
Suspect was traced in May 2021
On the trail of the man from Salzburg, local officials came after a tip from the international special commission (BAO) Berg in Cologne, which was investigating the abuse complex. Most of the suspects are said to have sexually abused their own children or stepchildren, filmed the crimes and exchanged mobile phone chats. Already in January 2020 there were indications that at least one Austrian might also be involved in the autumn. In May 2021, the suspect was investigated in Salzburg.
Already convicted of possession of child porn
The 34-year-old had already been sentenced to three months imprisonment in January 2021 for possession of child porn. It was then that the realization died that he would have to seek psychotherapy. In today’s process, too, instructions were given to complete therapy. The mother and child are now separated from the accused.
In a balance sheet in January of this year, the special commission emphasized that since the nationwide investigations into the sexual abuse of children and the possession and distribution of child pornographic content were taken over on October 30, 2019, 52 abused children have been freed and 330 suspects have been identified. By May 2021, ten men had already been sentenced to long prison terms.