A young mother sits in the Vienna Regional Court, crying and completely distraught, forced to talk about the day her neighbor allegedly sexually abused her daughter – she was only two. The 60-year-old speaks of an accident that he did not notice. “You laid hands on the child,” the jury ruled.
“The little one stood in front of me with big eyes. I saw blood on the ground. “She was also covered in blood and naked,” the 26-year-old mother recalled in complete distress before the Vienna Regional Court – which is probably quite understandable given the circumstances. Her neighbor abused her two-year-old daughter while her mother was in the kitchen.
Mother was in the next room during the abuse
On the evening of July 25, the Viennese woman invited the 60-year-old to her apartment – two old acquaintances who met again after some time. “We have always talked to each other in a friendly and funny way and had insults,” the woman says about the actually positive relationship with the suspect. Now he sits in the courtroom, turns his back on the witness and doesn’t look at her.
While the mother was preparing chicken wings in the oven, the Viennese man assaulted two-year-old Vanessa in the living room – leaving bloody towels. “The little girl was seriously injured in the genitals,” the prosecutor tries to gently explain to the jury. The mother then locked herself in the bathroom and immediately called the police – the child cried incessantly.
However, lawyer Wolfgang Haas is offended by the Public Prosecution Service’s accusation: “What weighs on him is the possibility that it could be so.” There are no clear DNA traces, nor a consistent explanation from the 26-year-old. The girl also did not undergo an examination at the Vienna General Hospital and could not provide reasonable information to the police – after all, she is only two years old.
“In the beginning there were some doubts and they became bigger and bigger. “There are uncertainties that are piling up,” Haas calls for an acquittal and brings up the possibility of an accident. His client, who pleads not guilty, speaks his last words to the jury: “Something happened. This is not a question. But I had nothing to do with it.”
‘You laid hands on the child’
After a brief consultation, the lay and professional judges came to a different conclusion: “We have determined that you laid hands on the child. In case of doubt, we were unable to determine whether it remained intensive groping or whether you performed actions equivalent to sexual intercourse.” Therefore, the 60-year-old is not legally sentenced to 22 months in prison for sexual abuse of minors. The “large number of important pieces of evidence” was sufficient for a conviction.
Source: Krone
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