Collapse in tears – abuse victim in court: “I was so afraid”

Lawyer mass gathering in the Viennese countryside. Second – this time adversarial interrogation – on the serial abuse case. Anna (not her real name) was shaken by fits of tears: cancel!

Room 25 on the second floor of the Gray House was well filled. The lawyers of at least 17 suspected “nursery perpetrators” (aged 13 to 18 at the time of the crimes they were accused of) crowded in front of the screens in what was probably the most gruesome gang rape case of the year. Unimaginable scenes A petite, inconspicuous girl flickered into the hearing room in a shielded video. She wore blue jeans, her brunette hair was loose and straight. As the “Krone” reported several times, Anna, then twelve, had apparently gone through unimaginable things in Vienna’s favorite district of Favoriten from the beginning of the previous year until the summer blackmailed. In the presence of top lawyer Sascha Flatz and the investigating public prosecutor, the student was questioned about each individual incident on Thursday afternoon. Not for long, however. The adversarial hearing had to be terminated quickly. The now 13-year-old was shaken by crying fits and kept saying: “I was so scared. I was so scared!” At the end of April there will be a third hearing, again adversarial. Until then, the girl will be intensively looked after by a psychologist.20,000 euros in donations for a holiday by the sea. Meanwhile, more than 20,000 euros in donations have already been raised for Anna’s greatest wish on a “GoFundMe” platform launched on the Internet. Because the student had confided to the “Krone”: “I want to get far away from Vienna. To the sea, into the sun – to a lonely beach. There I would build sand castles, with turrets and thick walls around them.” Thick walls around her destroyed soul…
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