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It's a nightmarish scene: a man in a wolf mask pulls a girl into a bush in Munich in broad daylight and rapes the child.

It comes out quickly: The alleged perpetrator is a man with a relevant criminal record, who was admitted to psychiatry after several sexual offenses and whose conditions had only recently been relaxed.

On Wednesday - more than a year and a half after the act in June 2019 - the trial against the alleged perpetrator at the Munich I Regional Court began.

The big questions: How did this happen?

Have control mechanisms failed?

The prosecution assumes that the man may have targeted his victim.

As stated in the indictment read out at the beginning of the trial, he is said to have observed and photographed the then eleven-year-old child in the S-Bahn before the crime in June 2019.

She also assumes that he set off that day with the intention of abusing the girl and that he also had the wolf mask with him for this purpose.

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The now 45-year-old man's lawyer admits that his client had observed and photographed the girl beforehand.

But the man denies the intention to act.

The decision to rape the child was made spontaneously.

“There was a certain back and forth: should I?

Should not I?"

Defendant largely admits to allegations

Otherwise, the defendant largely admits the allegations through his lawyer.

“You can't make up for what happened with an apology.

But he would like to sincerely ask for forgiveness as far as possible. "

The man is said to have followed the eleven-year-old who was on the way home from school.

Then he is said to have dragged the screaming and defending child into the bushes in the Munich district of Obergiesing and severely sexually abused there.

He is said to have worn the wolf mask that ensured that the case made headlines nationwide.

According to the investigators, he threatened to kill the girl and her parents if she called the police.

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The case has raised the issue of rehabilitation of sex offenders from the start.

Because the accused was in an easing stage of the penal system.

He had several criminal records for sexually abusing children.

According to the public prosecutor's office, he is said to have been noticed with sexual offenses in his youth and has also been convicted of assault.

"The cause must be critically questioned"

On the day of the act, he was allowed to drive unaccompanied from his assisted living community to his place of work.

According to the prosecutor, this was the only time in his daily routine when he was not under supervision.

In this way, he admits, he fell upon the child.

"The cause of how it came about must be critically questioned," says his lawyer Adam Ahmed.

"What control measures were there?

What technical discussions were there? "

Offenders can be sentenced to imprisonment, which are served in prisons, or to prison in specially equipped psychiatric clinics and rehab centers.

These are also known as forensic clinics.

This can apply to drug addicts or people with mental illness, for example.

There are 14 institutions in the Free State.

According to the latest data from the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs, a total of 2,884 people were in prison in the Free State at the end of 2019.

In the previous year there were 2772, at the end of 2017 there were 2489. Those who were accommodated because of a mental illness spent an average of 5.42 years in psychiatry in 2019.

Addicts stayed there for an average of 1.42 years.