Sailing coach trial: 13-year prison sentence 2024-07-20 11:43:53

With the young woman absent, the judges and jury decided unanimously that the then 29-year-old coach should be sentenced for the abuse of a minor.

However, regarding the crime of rape, the court found the defendant not guilty by a majority (6-1). The president, who ruled that there was an act of rape, abstained.

The president of the court, explaining the reasons for the acquittal regarding the crime of rape, stated:

“We were particularly concerned regarding the rape. These acts are never done when others are in front, they are acts done in secret, the perpetrator is alone with the victim. So how will we find out how the deed was done without another witness? We have one word once morest the other. We don’t have forensic reports or assessments, but only what each other says… We have an accused who from the first moment almost says the same things and the patient who during her statements gets confused as to time or place. We believe that no one tells the whole truth… every doubt is in favor of the accused in our law and when there is a trial the accused is in the “corner”. We have to do this in every trial because we never know when we will find ourselves in the same position. And we have to guard that, we have to be absolutely sure to convict a person.”

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