Teachers in Austria abused 40 students
According to the preliminary final report of an investigative commission, a teacher in Vienna abused and photographed numerous boys, including knockout drops.
The existence of 40 victims has been proven, according to the report presented on Monday. 25 of those affected are known, 15 others – previously unidentified – can be seen on photo and video material that was secured during a house search in the teacher’s apartment. The Vienna Education Directorate set up the 2021 investigative commission.
According to the authorities, the acts took place over a period of 15 years. 2019 Suspects start suicide after being investigated. Apparently, according to everyone, the educator was the most popular teacher at the school, the report says. He obviously has his entire energy used “to make himself irreplaceable and subsequently to be able to abuse the students entrusted to him unnoticed”.
Since the man also worked at a supported school, letters would now be sent to their former students to find out about possible acts of abuse and to offer help, it said.
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