In the investigation in the case of more than a thousand times the child abuse in North Rhine-Westphalia, the authorities have identified additional victims. The number of previously identified victims of sexual violence rose from 23 to 29, as the investigators have informed on Friday in Bielefeld, Germany.
The abuse series at the campsite in Lügde it was reported on Wednesday. The main suspect, a 56-year-old regular guest at the campsite, as well as two more men aged 48 and 33 years of sitting in detention. In addition to the investigation of serious sexual abuse office of the public Prosecutor and the police in the case, also suspected of dissemination of child pornography.
the defendant is a caring father of an affected girl
in Addition, the investigators examine the behavior of the youth care Offices in the lower Saxon Kreis Hameln/Pyrmont, and in the district of Lippe. The background is, among other things, that the 56-Year-old in 2016, a five-year-old foster child has been entrusted, he also has a past.
“The allegations against authorities in the framework of the investigation Commission, from Neutrality, edited separately,” it was said in the communication from the investigators. When the Investigation is likely to question whether the police lip has responded adequately to the earlier references to sexual Assault on the foster child.
Also, police in the criticism
According to the chief Prosecutor Ralf Vetter, it was already 2016 clues from two witnesses to possible sexual abuse of a foster child by the main accused. The police had forwarded the note to the youth welfare office lip. Police investigations have not, however. “We will check now, whether the police need not take any further steps would have been,” says Vetter.
In November of 2016, a further report was made by a member of staff of the jobcenter Blomberg to the police and the youth welfare office lip. It was, according to cousin to Manifestations of the care of the father, which could indicate sexual abuse of the child.
Also in this case, the police handed the note to child protective services. Further investigations or a note to the office of the public Prosecutor were not. Also, this behavior wants to take the public Prosecutor’s office in Detmold now under the magnifying glass.
change in the determination of line
The procedures in the sensational case, is led from police headquarters Bielefeld, Germany. So far, the threads at the police lip ran together in the investigation. On Friday, it was set up accordingly, the fact-finding Commission (EK) “the oak forest” – named after the campground in Lügde, on which the acts were allegedly committed in the past ten years. The new Commission consists of the previous members of the EK “Camping” in the lip and investigators of the criminal investigation Department in Bielefeld.
the scope and importance of the Case would have resulted in the Bielefeld police lead the process, reported the public Prosecutor’s office in Detmold, as well as the police authorities of Bielefeld and Lippe in a joint communication. This is done in close coordination with the public Prosecutor’s office in Detmold. In particular, the processing of the numerous in the case of secured files require the involvement of further experts from other police authorities from North Rhine-Westphalia. (nag/AFP)
Created: 01.02.2019, 18:00 clock
