Another terrible suspicion of child abuse in Austria causes horror. A ski instructor is said to have assaulted a three-year-old boy from Vienna in the chic ski resort of Lech am Arlberg (Vorarlberg).
The incident is believed to have occurred on January 11 during a family skiing holiday. The child had already been in the shelter for two days when the parents noticed that something was wrong with the child. Signs such as not being hungry, intensive showering and severe abdominal pain made the family skeptical. The father first suspected that it had something to do with health. However, this suspicion soon turned out to be incorrect.
Clings to father
Before the last ski race, the little one suddenly clung to his father in front of the ski school and did not want to go inside anymore. The ski instructor would have been very “touchy” with the kids there. The little boy just cried and wouldn’t talk about it.
A short time later, the three-year-old opened up to his family, who, back in Vienna, immediately filed a complaint against the ski instructor. He should also work there as a kindergarten teacher. The father filed a report in Vienna after his son was able to identify a suspect in a photo by describing him as a “bad man”.
audition on Saturday
The suspect continues to work with children and has not yet been questioned by the police. Vorarlberg police on Thursday confirmed the ongoing investigation into sexual abuse of minors. The complaint was initially lodged in Vienna. The investigation is now being carried out by the Vorarlberg State Criminal Investigation Department.
This fact was also confirmed by the prosecutor’s office in Feldkirch. “The advertisement was submitted in Vienna on January 25, the first surveys were conducted in Vienna,” the authority said. The file arrived in Feldkirch on the evening of February 1 and has been “investigated” ever since. The presumption of innocence continues to apply to the suspect. A first hearing will take place on Saturday.
Nursing home denies allegations
The allegations of abuse were resolutely rejected by the care institution in Lech. “That’s not true, that’s not possible,” it said on Friday. The children are taken care of in one room, a child is never left alone with only one person – usually there are five. One cannot explain the allegations against the ski instructor.
‘The status of the investigation is dramatic’
“The current status of the investigation is dramatic because so far hardly anything has happened here,” the family’s lawyer, Nikolaus Rast, said at a press conference on Friday, which was also attended by the little one’s father. “Only one person was interrogated and that was not the person who identified the boy as the perpetrator,” lawyer Rast told “Krone”. For the suspect, this is something like a “warning shot”. In this way, any documents or evidence can be pushed aside. The new terrible case was discovered by restaurateur Roberto d’Atri, president of the association “Bündnis-Kinderschutz Österreich”.
“Every scandal touches the souls of children. It is more than a question of why politicians here are so careful with the perpetrators,” d’Atri said on Friday.
Source: Krone
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