The use of various procedures leads to the result that the 47-year-old German ends up in the highest level of danger, said the doctor in the Braunschweig regional court. The sex offender, who has been convicted several times, is accused of three rapes and two cases of sexual abuse of children. The trial is attracting a lot of attention primarily because the defendant in the case of three-year-old Madeleine “Maddie” McCann, who disappeared from a Portuguese holiday resort in 2007, is suspected of murder. However, Maddie’s case is not the subject of the current proceedings. The presumption of innocence applies. B. is currently serving a prison sentence for raping a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal, to which he was sentenced by the Braunschweig Regional Court in 2019.
Defense demanded acquittal
According to established analysis methods, almost 100 percent of comparable sex offenders have better prognoses than the defendant, said the expert. The probability that B. will be imprisoned in the next two years is 30 to 50 percent. The 47-year-old’s defense attorneys emphasized several times during the trial that, in their view, the defendant should be acquitted of all charges.
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