Bochum: Sexual abuse – man sentenced to nine years in prison

"We are dealing with an unusual case here," said the presiding judge, Stefan Culemann, right at the beginning of his verdict. And for this he named several aspects.

On the one hand there is the boy who suddenly disappeared from an assisted living facility for young people in mid-2017 and was only accidentally discovered by the police two and a half years later. When officers searched the accused's apartment shortly before Christmas 2019 because there had been indications that the man had owned and exchanged pictures and videos with child pornographic content, the boy was squatting in a wardrobe in the bedroom.