In the case of abuse involving a physical education teacher who, until his suicide in May 2019 at a secondary school in Vienna, assaulted and photographed or filmed at least 40 underage boys for 15 years, including the use of knockout drops, the Ministry of Justice Specialized supervision of public prosecutors in individual criminal cases. An audit has started. The question is how a first complaint against the educator could “get bogged down”.
Victim lawyer Herta Bauer, who represents several victims of abuse in this sensational case, had asked Minister of Justice Alma Zadic (Greens) in mid-November for clarification about what had happened with a complaint against the sports teacher in 2013.
A former participant in a holiday camp at Lake Wolfgang had reported the teacher, who worked as a counselor in the camp during the summer months, to a police station in Lower Austria for sexual abuse. According to the Lower Austrian Criminal Investigation Department, the statement of facts was then sent to the local law enforcement authorities – but to this day it has not been picked up by any public prosecutor’s office.
If the complaint had been handled in accordance with the law and if the Viennese teacher had been accused of sexual abuse, he would presumably not have been able to teach at the Viennese high school and a neighboring primary school and to pursue his pedophile persecution until May 2019. trends in the school environment.
Criminal investigations against the teacher only started when a former student reported him in April 2019. After the suicide of the teacher at the end of May of the same year, the investigation against the sports teacher, who was popular at his school, was stopped by the Vienna public prosecutor’s office. The public prosecutor’s office in Wiener Neustadt is now investigating the mysterious disappearance of the complaint filed in 2013 against unknown perpetrators.
Source: Krone
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