2023-07-11 10:04:00
On September 5, the former actor Florian Teichtmeister had to answer to the Vienna Regional Court for possessing and producing tens of thousands of files depicting child abuse. This was announced by court spokeswoman Christina Salzborn on Tuesday. The 43-year-old is said to have procured prohibited material from February 2008 to summer 2021 and saved it on two smartphones, two laptops, a desktop and three external hard drives, among other things.
Originally, the public prosecutor’s office only accused Teichtmeister of possessing prohibited pornographic material. However, the responsible judge had a data forensic expert carry out an additional evaluation of the seized data – following all, around 23 terabytes – which changed the view of things: Teichtmeister had changed 34,696 files by editing them, creating collages, making slide shows and video sequences, which was legally qualifies as manufacture and is subject to a higher penalty. In the event of a conviction in accordance with the indictment, Teichtmeister now faces up to three years in prison.
A total of 76,000 files are the subject of the proceedings, as court spokeswoman Salzborn explained in a press release. Of these, around 47,000 relate to depictions of underage minors, the rest to consent minors, i.e. young people between the ages of 14 and 18.
Hearings once morest Teichtmeister should have been held five months ago, but the appointment scheduled for February 8 had to be canceled at short notice due to the defendant’s illness. Teichtmeister is now able to negotiate once more. Further delays were caused by indispensable surveys commissioned by the responsible judge, which were necessary to clarify responsibility and legal classification.
The public prosecutor had been investigating Teichtmeister since 2021, and at the end of 2022 the application for punishment was submitted to the regional court. The government took the Teichtmeister case as an opportunity to tighten the penalties for acquiring, possessing and passing on or trading in depictions of abuse by children and young people. Since retroactivity of criminal laws is forbidden, the actor will no longer be affected if he is convicted.
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