German Men Booked For One Of Ghastliest Child Sex Abuse Scandals

The Detmold district court has convicted two men for abusing hundreds of children at a campsite near Germany for over a decade. The culprits are charged for sexually abusing dozens of young girls and boys between the age of three to fourteen and for producing child pornography.

As many as 450 of such cases, happened in the period of more than 20 years, have been reported leaving the country in shock.

The convicts, identified as Andreas V. (56) and Mario S. (34), will serve 13 and 12 years of jail terms respectively. Their full names were withheld by the authorities in accordance with the German privacy laws.

The felonious two were said to have lured the children by promising laptops and gifts before abducting, abusing and subjecting them to child pornography. They have also been reprimanded for raping 32 boys and girls among the victims. The children were victimized by them while they were holidaying at the camp in Lügde which is located near Hamelin in northern Germany.

A third man known as Heiko V. too was linked to the case. For assisting in and abetting the sexual abuse of children, he was charged in a separate trial in July. After being ordered by the court to attend therapy, he was handed a two-year probationary sentence, CNN reported.

In a shocking revelation, German Police said Andreas V went on to become the mastermind of a pedophile gang that used his family’s camper van as a depot where dozens of children were abused and their videos were recorded for generating profit on the dark web.

Authorities said that they collected ten computers, nine mobile phones, over 40 hard drives and more than 400 additional data carriers which were enough to testify their crime.

Judge Anke Grudda who was at the helm of the case said it was "difficult to express what happened in words," and even the words like "abhorrent, monstrous, repugnant" would fail to describe the measure of atrocities.

Axel Lehmann, the district council in charge of police oversight, told CNN that "considerable mistakes" had been made by individuals but “we are regarded as the safest circle in NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia)."

Strangely enough, regardless of the sex abuse allegations against Andreas V., he was permitted to father a six-year-old foster daughter and the Germans are still wondering why.