Overview
- Two principal defendants received prison terms of three and a half years and three years, with others given four to 18 months, partly suspended.
- One defendant — the former student who had a prior consensual relationship with the teacher — was acquitted of theft under Austria’s laws governing age of consent.
- Judges found the group used explicit recordings showing sexual acts and drug use to blackmail the victim for cash, substances, food, drinks and taxi fares.
- Several admitted theft and arson but denied sexual offenses and extortion, while the panel credited the victim’s testimony to secure the convictions.
- The crimes escalated to a break‑in and fire that destroyed the teacher’s apartment during her holiday, and parts of the verdicts remain subject to appeal.