Overview

• The 20th criminal chamber at Landgericht München I convicted Brandon R. on 21 counts of severe sexual abuse with contact and 37 counts without contact.
• The pair met via a phone-chat app, spoke for hours daily, and met repeatedly over more than a year while the defendant framed it as a consensual relationship.
• The girl later required psychiatric care and filed a complaint after a police presentation at her school.
• Prosecutors sought six years in prison, while the defense asked for a two-year term suspended on probation.
• The defendant said he will pursue a financial victim-offender compensation agreement, and he has not yet decided whether to file an appeal.