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MA 11 confirmed a corresponding “Vienna Today” report to the APA on Thursday. Specifically, the allegations are about sexual assault, as MA 11 emphasized. “A child told another child about it during a play situation,” said spokeswoman Ingrid Pöschmann. The attacks are said to have taken place at a time when the man was still working at the facility, said the spokeswoman.
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Until recently, there was an internal child and youth welfare case against him because of similar allegations from 2021. “We have therefore reopened the MA 11 investigation and submitted a corresponding statement of facts to the Vienna public prosecutor’s office,” Pöschmann told the APA in the evening . Pöschmann emphasized that the man had not worked with children since 2021.
The APA could no longer verify the existence of a corresponding statement of facts from the public prosecutor’s office late on Thursday evening. The new allegations are certainly explosive. It was only last December that the public prosecutor’s office discontinued proceedings against the man who has now been accused again and another educator due to allegations from 2021 regarding the suspicion of sexual abuse of minors and partly because of the suspicion of deprivation of liberty. According to Pöschmann, the internal proceedings against the man lasted until this year because a “catalog of measures” had to be drawn up. “We asked ourselves what this could look like so that the employee can work for us again.”
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The public prosecutor’s office justified the termination of the criminal investigation by saying that “the interrogations of all those involved and further investigative measures” could not have substantiated the suspicion, as it was said in December 2023. The report from a psychological expert, who was unable to find any statements that corroborated suspicions in conversations with the children, was essential for this.
The case caused a stir in 2022. In the course of the case, the management of the municipal kindergartens (MA 10) was also replaced. The responsible city councilor Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS) was dissatisfied with the crisis management surrounding the suspected case at the time.
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