In another trial in the abuse complex in Münster, the district court sentenced a defendant to imprisonment. The 38-year-old man from Wuppertal is said to be imprisoned for five years, according to a verdict on Thursday, as a court spokesman said. The court found the acts of abuse alleged to be essentially proven. He had therefore met in March 2019 in a forest near Dülmen with Adrian V, who was considered the main culprit in the complex, in order to severely sexually abuse his foster son. In addition, numerous image files were found on the man showing sexual violence against children.
At the beginning, the defendant only admitted possession and sending of the abuse pictures, but the serious acts of abuse did not occur in the forest.
Corresponding chat protocols had however served the judges as evidence in the process.
The public prosecutor's office had demanded a six-year prison sentence, the defense considered a suspended sentence to be appropriate.
In the main trial, Adrian V. was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention at the beginning of July.
He had raped his now eleven-year-old foster son again and again and left it to other men for serious abuse.
Both judgments - against the main culprit and against the man from Wuppertal - are not yet final.
Alongside Lügde and Bergisch Gladbach, Münster is one of three major abuse cases in North Rhine-Westphalia in recent years. The case came to light in June 2020 after investigations into a gazebo. In the course of this, there had been arrests in several federal states and abroad. Several men and one woman have already been sentenced to imprisonment in the offense. Other suspects have been identified and some are in custody.