Five and a Half Years in Prison After Rape in Vienna

According to the indictment, the 32-year-old man allegedly lured the 15-year-old and a 14-year-old friend with a 24-year-old into an abandoned office building in Vienna-Brigittenau, where abuse took place.

32-year-old threatened 15-year-old with murder

The incriminated events took place on the night of October 26, 2024, in premises in the illegally occupied house. The girls had accompanied the two adult men, whom they already knew, into the building - presumably because they expected more drugs, according to the court. "They were already under the influence of drugs at that time," the presiding judge noted in the verdict. The 32-year-old subsequently threatened the 15-year-old with murder and coerced her into tolerating sexual intercourse. He then performed acts on the 14-year-old that constituted sexual coercion by intimidating her with a deceptively realistic-looking firearm replica. The 24-year-old was acquitted of contributing to the rape. He was sentenced to three months of suspended imprisonment for sexually harassing the 15-year-old. He had touched her bare breast after she had been raped and presumably fallen asleep due to the substances consumed.

Girls met men at Keplerplatz

The two girls had met the men shortly before the crime at Keplerplatz in Favoriten. They arranged to meet for the evening of October 25 and expected "a party," as stated in the judge's verdict. Instead, the 32-year-old directed the 15-year-old into a room and told her no one would hear her "if you scream." Then he raped her. "It's insane what happened there," the judge emphasized. Because afterward, the 32-year-old put the younger girl in mortal fear with a toy gun by pressing the deceptively realistic replica against her head. The 15-year-old suffered strangulation marks, bruises, abrasions, and scratches, but the psychological consequences are likely to have been far more severe. She had "cried and prayed" during the rape, she told the police.

Girls asked roommates for help

The distressed girls tried to ask a roommate of the men for help, who was then beaten by the main defendant. The teenagers only made an emergency call via a mobile phone at 7:00 a.m., but the police initially could not find the girls. The girls managed to escape only in the afternoon of October 26, after the defendants had fallen asleep. They then contacted the police again, who, with the support of the special unit WEGA, found the men asleep and arrested them.

In Austria, women experiencing violence can find help and information, among others, at the Women's Helpline: 0800-222-555, www.frauenhelpline.at; at the Association of Autonomous Austrian Women's Shelters (AÖF) at www.aoef.at; Violence Protection Center Vienna: https://www.gewaltschutzzentrum.at/wien/ and at the 24-hour Women's Emergency Hotline of the City of Vienna: 01-71719 as well as the Women's Shelter Emergency Hotline at 057722 and the Austrian Violence Protection Centers: 0800/700-217; Police emergency number: 133.

(APA/Red)

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