Trial Defense demands lenient prison sentence of 4.5 years
In Tuesday's abuse trial at Lucerne Criminal Court, the defense demanded a prison sentence of 4.5 years instead of 12 years. It also requested that he not be sentenced to custody and that outpatient anti-androgen therapy be ordered instead.
03.12.2024, 10:09
03.12.2024, 17:28
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The defense lawyer argued that the defendant had never acted as a violent offender. He had remained offense-free with the help of ten years of therapy and also had a positive progress report today. He also added that the accused had lived in various children's homes during his childhood and had experienced sexual violence there himself.
The defense lawyer said that the prosecution had chosen the wrong term "human trafficking". He had not trafficked the children for the purpose of sexual exploitation and had not made any profit from them.
He also pointed out in his plea that the boy who spent most of his time with the accused was 11 years old at the time of the first offense. The last sexual act took place when he was around 17 years old and therefore outside the age of consent. At that time, the boy was already of legal age, which mitigated the sentence.
