21-year-old convicted of wanting sex with 12-year-old
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A 21-year-old from Tennengauer, who tried to persuade a 12-year-old in Salzburg to have a sexual relationship, was sentenced to a partially conditional prison term of 12 months, including two months, at the Salzburg Regional Court on Thursday.
The verdict on “initiation of sexual contact with minors” is not final because the public prosecutor’s office has not issued a statement. The accused reservation at the trial made a full and remorseful confession. He accepted the verdict. According to the indictment, he wanted to get in intimate contact with the student from his neighborhood between September 27 and October 3, 2021.
Girl spied on the web
The suspect is also said to have tried to approach the twelve-year-old via the Internet. For example, This had announced a meeting with friends on social media, the accused is said to have followed and observed them there. But that came to the ears of the parents of the student. You alert the police.
After a search of the house, it became known at the time that the man had already been convicted of possessing or distributing child pornography – just a few months before the prosecution allegations were to be heard. If he is convicted of initiating sexual contact with minors, that could mean up to two years in prison.
Nursing growing problem
General facilitation of the internet and its relative anonymity criminalized sexual contacts with younger people – for example with the so-called “grooming”. In this case, an older perpetrator presents himself as much younger in order to fool the victim into believing that he is in contact with someone of the same age.