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At the same time, indefinite confinement to an institution for mentally abnormal offenders was announced. The judgment is not final.
The 59-year-old is said to be around from February 2017 to January 2022 500,000 downloaded relevant files from the Internet and saved them on data carriers. He had already confessed at the beginning of the trial on June 13, 2022. He said he has experienced abuse himself in his life, suffers from depression and is in therapy. It was last examined by a court in 2005. At that time, no mental abnormality was found.
The judge wanted to know the current mental state of the accused. As a result, the hearing was adjourned in June to obtain a psychiatric opinion on whether there was a requirement for the man’s admission to an institution for responsible, mentally abnormal offenders. In her expertise, the expert classified the risk prognosis as high. According to the sworn experts, the medical requirements for admission are met.
“Fallen in Hole”
The public prosecutor’s office has brought charges against the early retiree after relevant pictures and videos were secured during a house search. The native of Upper Austria is also said to have visited a relevant forum on the Internet. “When I fall into a hole and have depression, such acts occur. Nobody understands that,” the accused explained. This hole opened up after his psychiatrist retired.
According to the divorced man, he has had a new therapist since April 2021. Since then, he has seen fewer child abuse stories, but never stopped. He also takes medication for depression. The accused denied the allegation that he had taken relevant photos of a girl born in 2013. He was also acquitted of this charge today.
The nine-month prison sentence was suspended today on probation, but the indefinite confinement to an institution for mentally abnormal but sane offenders was unconditionally pronounced.
The Teichtmeister case recently caused a stir. Next Wednesday, the actor Florian Teichtmeister, who has since been fired from the Burgtheater, will have to answer to the Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters for possessing extensive material with pictorial representations of child abuse (§207a StGB).
According to the criminal complaint, the artist should turn 58 in total from February 2008 to summer 2021.000 Procured files with relevant material and saved them on 22 data carriers. According to his legal representatives, he has confessed and will plead guilty to the full. The government is now planning to increase the penalties for possessing images of abuse by consenting minors and minors.
Source: Nachrichten
