The Berlin regional court has sentenced a 28-year-old voluntary childcare worker to twelve years in prison in a total of 95 cases of sexual abuse of children.

On Thursday, the judges also found Sönke G. guilty of the sexual abuse of wards and the production of child pornography.

They also ordered the convict to be held in preventive detention after the end of his term of imprisonment.

The youth chamber saw it as proven that G. had sexually abused 26 boys between the ages of seven months and eight years from 2015 to 2020 and had created child pornographic material about them.

The victims had been entrusted to the accused to look after them as babysitters or childminders.

According to the court's findings, a company G. had acted as a volunteer child companion in the families.

In other cases, the parents of those affected hired him as a babysitter online.

G. "actively made contact" with the children, said the presiding judge.

The parents of the affected children appeared in the process as joint plaintiffs.

In total there were 20 joint plaintiffs.

Preventive detention due to "risk of recurrence"

According to the court, of the 95 cases of child sexual abuse, 50 cases were serious abuse and seven cases were particularly serious abuse.

The crimes were committed in the homes of the children being cared for and sometimes also in public toilets.

According to the presiding judge, G. had "comprehensively acknowledged" all the crimes in the process.

Since he has a pedophilic disorder that has been known for years, there is a “risk of recurrence”.

The court therefore ordered preventive detention following the detention.

With its verdict, the Chamber remained just below the demand of the public prosecutor's office.

This had demanded 14 years and six months, as well as preventive detention.

The defense made no specific request, but suggested less than 10 years in prison.

To protect the victims, the public was excluded from the trial, which began in early March, before the indictment was read out.

She was only admitted again when the verdict was announced.