One day before the International Day against Violence against Women on Saturday, the “Krone” in Vienna’s Landl followed “smaller” trials, which are unfortunately the order of the day. It is difficult for the female victims to take a stand, especially because the perpetrators rarely confess.
A pensioner enters room 36, hunched over, his teeth already missing. But not much was left of the nice old man’s appearance when the prosecutor presented the allegations against the 78-year-old: he offered a young woman – she was only 24 – took a job as a cleaning lady in July and lured her to his apartment in Vienna-Simmering.
“He grabbed the victim’s breasts under her T-shirt and tried to remove her pants,” the prosecutor said of the attempted rape of the older man. He doesn’t want to say anything in court, but when he is arrested he denies that he knows the woman at all.
Lawyer Philipp Winkler: “In my opinion he has dementia.” The psychiatric report obtained cannot confirm this.
The 24-year-old remembers the horrific incident on the witness stand: “He wanted to undress me and attacked me everywhere. He said he wanted sex and held me down. I defended myself.” This is evident from DNA traces.
The jury sentenced him to 24 months’ partial imprisonment – including three months – for attempted rape. The decisive factor for the very lenient sentence was that fortunately the victim was not injured. And the higher age of the 78-year-old.
Abuse at Christmas: ‘He is unpredictable when he is drunk’
Unfortunately, a classic in trials of violence against women: the perpetrator-victim reversal. That was also the case in room 14 on Friday. “She attacked me and was drunk again. “I don’t understand why she would think of this,” Markus C. pleads innocent. At Christmas he allegedly hit his partner on the shin and threatened to kill her.
“He said, ‘I’m going to kill your family.’ And you too, just like he always did. That was standard,” said the victim, who waited around the corner for the interrogation out of fear of the Viennese. “When he is sober, he is a calm person. When he is drunk, he is unpredictable.” The suspect wants nothing to do with it: “On December 24, I baked cookies all day. That’s my hobby.”
But: He has already spent two years in prison because of violence and threats against the woman. This time he gets away with a year, of which nine months. The judge wants to know from the victim why he was allowed to live with her again after his release: “It will take a long time before it is over. I could have called the police any day before…’
Daughter punished with ruler and wooden spoon
Again room 14 in the Wiener Landl. A well-dressed couple sits in the dock. It is about the parenting methods of the father of the family, who is said to have constantly used violence against his four children. “The daughter has a depressive disorder that has been exacerbated by her father’s actions,” the court report said.
The accusations: As punishment, she was made to stand in the corner and was hit on the hands with a plastic ruler or wooden spoon and hit. Her father also threatened to cut off her tongue and fingers. The woman who was a co-suspect just watched.
“The girl is addicted to drugs. My son often brought her home half dead in his arms,” the grandmother protects the defendant. Lawyer Peter Philipp was given a purely suspended prison sentence for torturing minors: 22 months for the father, 15 months for the mother.
Source: Krone
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