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Göttingen / Northeim (dpa) - The Göttingen public prosecutor's office is checking the investigations of the Northeim police for possible omissions in the so-called Northeim abuse complex.
The authority had files come from the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior to check processes, reported the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR).
The Göttingen Chief Public Prosecutor Andreas Buick said on Sunday that it would be checked "who knew what when" and whether there was an official offense or criminal behavior.
Lower Saxony's police chief Axel Brockmann had told the social committee in the state parliament that misunderstandings among the police would have led to avoidable cases of child abuse.
The abuse complex is about a 49-year-old from the Northeim district who is said to have sexually abused several children and young people.
The man had contact with the main perpetrator of the abuse series on the campsite in Lügde in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Brockmann had said that the Northeimer was only arrested in March 2020 - although there was an initial suspicion against him in April 2019.
The youth welfare office in Northeim had therefore sent indications of child abuse in the vicinity of two families to the local police in April 2019.
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"Despite clear indications from the youth welfare office," the Northeim police did not check the initial suspicion against the man, Brockmann said.
Instead of investigating herself, she passed the information on to the officials in North Rhine-Westphalia who were investigating the Lügde abuse complex.
These officials did not take action because it was about a crime scene in Lower Saxony.
The police in Northeim also had no contact with the public prosecutor in Lower Saxony.
The aim is to “review” the process and work through it, said Buick.
The question is whether criminal offenses could have been prevented.
He expects the results of the examination in ten to 14 days.
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