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On July 13, 2022 in Vienna-Ottakring, she pushed a fruit and vegetable knife into the thigh and kidney of a 48-year-old acquaintance. The man suffered life-threatening injuries, according to the prosecutor, he would have died without rapid medical attention. “I wanted to teach him a lesson,” said the defendant. As the young woman explained in her interrogation, the man had taken advantage of her condition, which was impaired by drug and alcohol consumption, the night before. The 48-year-old deals in addictive substances and mobile phones, she wanted to buy a mobile device from him and took intoxicating substances with him on this occasion. She fell asleep from it. “When I woke up, he had his head on my chest and was grinning like that. At that moment I felt that he had raped me,” the accused told the jury. She took his backpack with his valuables and ran away angry and shocked in equal measure.
“Was mad at him”
On the same day, however, she met the 48-year-old in a demolished house, which is known in the narcotics scene as a drug hub. The man demanded his things back, while the woman said she was “angry with him,” admitting in court: “He took advantage of me. I saw a fruit knife at the table.” With that she “only hurt him slightly” and “wanted to show that he wouldn’t do anything in the future. I wanted to catch him on the buttocks. Not up there (meant: in the kidney area, note). It all happened so quickly. “
“She’s not a murderer. She’s a poor, tormented girl who has been exploited,” defender Rudolf Mayer said. His client was originally a good student, even the best in her class, then met a much older man who, at his request, dropped out of sixth grade and got married. In the marriage she was beaten and came into contact with drugs, after the divorce slipped into the drug milieu.
No rape investigation
On the witness stand, the 48-year-old denied having abused the 32-year-old. During the investigation he had spoken of consensual sex, but in court he no longer mentioned intimate contacts at all. When stabbing, the defendant said, “Why are you taking advantage of me?” shouted that he could not explain this statement. The public prosecutor’s office is not investigating the 48-year-old because of the rape alleged by the accused. “It could not be determined whether the sexual intercourse was consensual,” the prosecutor said. The woman refused a gynecological examination.
The verdict should be expected in the late afternoon. If convicted in accordance with the charges, the 32-year-old faces ten to 20 years in prison.
Source: Nachrichten
