Overview
- Judges in Nuremberg convicted three defendants for forcing a 19-year-old Hungarian woman into prostitution, sentencing the 36-year-old principal to 3 years 6 months, his 34-year-old partner to 2 years 9 months, and his 19-year-old daughter to a 9-month suspended term for aiding.
- Prosecutors said the victim earned at least €42,240 in Germany from October 2024 to March 2025, with the accused taking virtually all of it while controlling her through threats and assignments in model apartments and briefly on the Berlin street scene.
- In Stralsund, a 39-year-old defendant partly admitted violence and coercion against his partner, while disputing the alleged scope of several hundred to up to a thousand incidents from mid‑2021 to June 2025.
- The court in Stralsund outlined a plea framework of three years ten months to four years six months in prison if the defendant delivers a full confession, with further hearings scheduled into the week before Christmas to reduce the need for detailed victim testimony.
- Police and the BKA report a large undetected field of sexual exploitation, with recruitment often online and in anonymous model apartments; Bavarian police logged 36 forced-prostitution cases in 2024, with 71.8% of suspects foreign.