The woman had suffered for almost 24 hours. She was attacked, abducted and raped several times in a hut. Her alleged tormentor confessed to the court and apologized. The court, however, was unyielding.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - After a brutal hostage-taking and the repeated rape of the victim, the confessed tormentor of a woman from Württemberg has to go to prison for several years. The regional court in Stuttgart sentenced the 36-year-old to nine years in prison on Friday, and the man is also being held in a rehabilitation center. He had largely confessed to abducting a woman into his garden shed for almost 24 hours and raping her multiple times. In addition to taking hostages and particularly serious rape, he was also guilty of particularly serious coercion and dangerous bodily harm, said the presiding judge.
The lawyer accused the previously convicted defendant of "unscrupulousness or a self-service mentality". The man's defense attorney showed understanding for the verdict. "My client rightly described the acts that we have negotiated here as atrocities," he said.
According to the conviction of the court, the man had watched the 23-year-old at the time of the crime in April of this year on a dirt road near Reichenbach an der Fils (Esslingen district), threatened with a knife and brought her to a hut. A search operation found the woman and arrested the fleeing man. He was charged with kidnapping, among other things.
With its verdict, the court followed the request of the public prosecutor. Defense and co-prosecutor had made no specific request.
