Sex crimes in children regularly cause astonishment. Nevertheless, you should not take the law enforcement into your own hands. Three young people have now been convicted in Graz. They had lured alleged pedophiles in an ambush, beaten and robbed. “A sensation”, as they encounter themselves.
“The accused has observed their aggression and hatred for homosexuals under the guise of Vigilante Justice – and that alone is already reprehensible and not tolerated – and also earns money,” says Justice of Justice Julia Steiner in court. “And before that they liked celebrated people.”
According to the indictment, the first, unemployed student in different online groups, in which the members exchanged how they offer other men who are supposed to meet sex with so -called minors.
In ambush as a 13-year-old
At one point, the then 17-year-old made the decision to also ambush gay men who want to accept sex contacts with minors. The two fellow – also – also 17 at the time of crime – support him.
At the agreed meeting point they were a 13-year-old boy-the alleged pedophiles were subsequently humiliated (“they had to go to the defendant knees”), beaten and robbed. The self -proclaimed avenues photographed the licenses of their rows and published the names in the network.
The victim jumped in panic in Teich
The actions themselves were filmed and broadcast live on the internet. One of the victims could only save themselves in a panic with a jump in a bathing pond. The man called for help in a few minutes. The accused acquaintance to enjoy the sensation.
“Is your life too boring because you have to see how people are downgraded so that you can laugh about it?” Richter freely asks a witness who watched these live videos in the group “Pedo hunt Austria”. “Help me to understand why you are in such a group!” -But no plausible answer comes from the 17-year-old.
“I just ran”
One of the victims is then interviewed via video call. He was only exactly in the park by chance, the mobile phone led him to the park and nature, the man says. “But it was pretty late,” the judge throws in. “I worked for a long time and still wanted to break air.” Three strangers are stormed at him with hoods and storm caps. “I’m just running.” The project manager found help in a clubhouse.
“However, the accused says that they have dropped them under the pretext that they can have sex with a boy?” – “That is not true,” the witness emphasizes. He cannot explain that his news has been removed. “I had none of it.”
“Young Deliest”
“Unfortunately, young people make nonsense,” says lawyer Bernhard Lehofer in his last plea. “In their youthful issues, they may have thought they were doing something good.” Even if he doesn’t want to approve the actions.
The layman judge ultimately condemns the trio for imprisonment between twelve months before probation and 18 months. “You will not be guilty. His authorities for that!”, The judge concludes. The accused asked for time. The judgments are not final.
Only in March was there a big blow to the so-called Pedo-Hunter scene in Austria with the “Venator” operation named after the spider of the Hunter. The office of the public prosecutor is responsible. At present, 31 accused and (still) unknown perpetrators are determined. “Expert reports are still open,” confirms the spokesperson for the public prosecutor of Graz, Arnulf Rumpold, to the request “Krone”.
Source: Krone
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