Eight men walked free after gang-raping 15-year-old girl in a case that
stunned the world. Now there has been an enraging update.
A young woman has been sent to prison for insulting a man who walked
free after gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in a Hamburg city park.
In 2020, a heavily intoxicated teenager was repeatedly raped by several
men in the German city.
The case sent shockwaves around the world last year, when it was
revealed eight out of the nine perpetrators would not face prison time.
They received suspended sentences. Only one rapist was sent to youth
prison for two years and nine months. One was acquitted.
Now, a 20-year-old woman from the city has been sent to prison after
making “hateful” remarks towards a migrant who was involved and remains
at large.
Last week, a young woman was convicted by a district court of insulting
and threatening one of the rapists, a justice spokeswoman confirmed to
German national newspaper Die Welt.
The verdict against the man is not yet final, it is still pending before
the Federal Court of Justice. However, he has not served any jail time.
The newspaper reports the young woman jailed for insulting him had found
his number online — as it was circulating on Snapchat.
She then insulted him via the messenger service WhatsApp. According to
local newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt, she wrote, among other things,
that he was a “dishonourable rapist pig” and a “disgusting freak”. She also threatened him that he would “not be able to go anywhere anymore” without being beaten up.
Last Tuesday, the Hamburg-Wandsbek District Court sentenced her to a
period of detention for insulting and threatening.
The young woman, who wants to become a nurse, was already on record; she
had previously received a disciplinary measure because she was caught
stealing low-value items — worth less than 25 euros ($40).
The detention means a weekend behind bars, from Friday evening to Sunday evening. She will have to spend the detention in the Hahnöfersand youth detention centre, a justice spokeswoman told Die Welt. This means she
will be locked up longer than the young man she insulted, who only
received a suspended sentence. Die Welt reports her verdict is not yet
final.
Authorities in Hamburg are investigating 140 cases of insults, threats
or other statements to the detriment of the rapists, the Hamburger
Abendblatt reports.
Horrific gang rape
The ten men accused of the crime had been charged with raping the girl
during a two-and-a-half-hour ordeal on the night of September 19, 2020.
The girl had attended a party in the park, which had become a popular
meeting area during Covid, on the day of the attack.
According to prosecutors, four of the men led the girl, who had a
blood-alcohol level of at least 0.16 per cent, into a bush and performed
sexual acts on her against her will.
One of them stole her mobile phone and wallet.
Finally, three other defendants then took the girl into the bushes.
One of those, a 23-year-old, was acquitted as the court could not
determine whether all three raped her.
Because the perpetrators were aged between 17 and 21 at the time, the
case was conducted by a youth chamber and the public was excluded from
the proceedings.
The trial began in May, 2022 and ran for 68 days, with the court hearing
from 96 witnesses and several experts.
While there were no direct witnesses, DNA evidence connected nine of the defendants to the crime.
The presiding judge described it as a “mammoth circumstantial trial in
which it was not clear for a long time what had happened on the night of September 19th to 20th, 2020”, Spiegel reported.
The court heard that two videos were filmed, of the first and last
rapes, but that both videos were irretrievably deleted shortly after the
crime and were not available to investigators.
According to Die Welt of the ten defendants, five were German citizens,
the others were from Syria, Montenegro, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Armenia.
Three of the cases that ended in suspended sentences have now been
legally concluded. The men were also required to complete 60 hours of
community service each.
Prosecutors had sought sentences of between one year and three months to
three years for nine of the defendants, while defence lawyers sought
acquittal for all 10.
According to Spiegel, under juvenile criminal law in Germany the length
of youth sentences is based on the educational needs of the individual defendant.
The court heard none of the defendants had committed sexual offences
before or had previously faced a youth sentence.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/woman-jailed-for-insulting-gang-rapist/news-story/e07e47bdc9869fe517c70ac900bddf7b
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