Overview
- The court found more than 80 abuses between 2016 and 2020 at the school, on class trips and at the teacher’s home.
- The prosecutor sought six years and three months, the defense asked for four years and eleven months, and the full confession was treated as mitigating.
- The victim was 13 at the time of the first sexual intercourse and has been diagnosed with post‑traumatic stress disorder, according to the prosecution.
- Presiding Judge Holger Pröbstel rebuked the Gymnasium and highlighted a separate case against another teacher accused of exchanging pornographic images with the girl.
- The defendant apologized in court, agreed to pay €30,000 in a victim–offender settlement, and the verdict is not yet legally binding.