“I’ve never downloaded stuff like that”

“These allegations are not true”says the defendant to judge Josef Lautner. The 27-year-old from the Braunau district has to answer before the Ried regional court for the offense of pornographic depiction of minors.

“My client had access to the files and I went through them with him. He maintains that he has nothing to do with the allegations. He has neither used nor downloaded the files”says the defense attorney.

Between December 2nd and 4th, 2021, the previously blameless Innviertler is said to have downloaded a total of 34 child porn videos, according to public prosecutor Paul Fellner. “How does it look like? What did you do these days?”the judge wants to know from the accused. “I don’t remember what I did back then. What I do know is that I never downloaded stuff like that”, replies the 27-year-old. The fact is that the 34 files in question could not be secured during a house search. The authorities became aware of a global online warning system that is used to identify users who download child porn. The questioning about his “Online activities” on a livestream platform called “kick” is visibly uncomfortable for the accused. The judge brushes off a request to exclude the public. “I was in these groups for regular porn, but I never uploaded or forwarded anything, just because of copyright issues.” Once or twice, photos with suspected child pornography content were posted in the group chat. However, these were immediately removed by the administrator.

The email addresses and IP addresses of the accused apparently appeared several times in the evaluations of the online warning system. According to a police officer’s testimony, the Innviertler’s cell phone could also be traced back to the prohibited content.

“Not easy for me”

Prosecutor Fellner confronts the man with several email addresses and user names. However, the defendant does not want to be able to remember this. “I don’t know, I’ve had so many different usernames over the years. The bad thing, to put it bluntly, is that I’m now on trial for something I didn’t do. This is anything but easy for me.”

“It’s rare for someone to consume content like this for just three days”says Judge Lautner, who ultimately postpones the trial. A technical report in which the accused’s devices are examined in detail is intended to shed light on the darkness of this trial.

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