Defenseless Girls Abused in Bischofshofen: More Verdicts Delivered

One defendant was sentenced to five years in prison, the second to four months of probation. All verdicts are not yet legally binding.

The prosecution primarily accused the majority of the defendants of severe sexual abuse of defenseless or mentally impaired persons. The boys are said to have performed massive sexual acts on the two heavily intoxicated girls - who were 15 and 16 years old at the time of the crime - in varying compositions. One of the teenagers had an empty house and invited to a party. Gradually, the accused are believed to have joined - and allegedly got the girls drunk with hard drinks and then exploited their defenseless state.

Alleged Perpetrators Unblemished at the Time of the Crime

The alleged perpetrators are Serbs, Turks, and Austrians with a migration background. They were all unblemished in court at the time of the crime, but some have since been convicted of other offenses. Two of them are said to have seriously injured a 22-year-old Kosovar at the Bischofshofen train station with kicks and punches in June 2024 - and have already been sentenced to partially suspended prison sentences for this. The oldest accused was also found guilty of spreading IS propaganda.

Four defendants, who confessed, were sentenced to unconditional prison terms of 18 to 24 months on the first day of the trial, a fifth to five months of probation, only convicted for the sexual depiction or representation of minors. On Monday, another defendant was sentenced as an accessory to 15 months of probation. Today, the non-confessing oldest was sentenced to five years of unconditional imprisonment, the eighth defendant received a four-month suspended sentence for filming the assaults.

(APA/Red)

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