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Mönchengladbach Court Sentences Five for Running 'Alice in Wonderland' Child-Abuse Site to Up to 11½ Years

One Munich defendant was also ordered into preventive detention based on a high risk of reoffending.

Das Landgericht Mönchengladbach hat fünf Betreiber einer großen Kinderpornografieplattform zu mehrjährigen Freiheitsstrafen verurteilt. Die Angeklagten erhielten Haftstrafen zwischen fünfeinhalb und zehneinhalb Jahren, wie ein Sprecher sagte.
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Overview

  • The Landgericht Mönchengladbach handed down prison terms ranging from five and a half to eleven and a half years to five men who operated the Darknet platform.
  • The court said four verdicts can still be appealed, while one defendant accepted the judgment immediately.
  • Prosecutors described the men, aged 44 to 63 from several German states, as moderators or administrators active from 2019 to 2024, and all five admitted the charges during the trial.
  • Investigators report the platform hosted millions of files and had hundreds of thousands of users, with material showing severe abuse of girls, including infants, and data volumes estimated in the petabyte range.
  • The site was taken offline during a nationwide raid in September 2024 led by Duisburg police, which seized more than 1,500 pieces of digital evidence and made six arrests.