FRANKFURT, Sept 2 — A German court today sentenced a 46-year-old man to indefinite detention for sexually abusing a teenage boy he kept hidden for over two years and who police found in a closet.
Preventive detention is one of the harshest sanctions in Germany’s criminal system, designed to keep incarcerated offenders considered too dangerous to release, even after they have served their official sentence. The court heard that he had met the suspect in an online chatroom and agreed to go to his apartment in the western town of Recklinghausen.
The judge however rejected the accused’s claim that it was a consensual relationship. The boy himself gave three days of testimony during the trial.
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