The defendant is led into the hearing room and hides his face behind a file. His lawyer Henner Maaß stands next to him Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa
From BZ/dpa
Just over a year ago, a 30-year-old man killed the student Ayleen, whom he had previously harassed and put under pressure in sexualized chats for months. The Giessen regional court has now imposed the maximum penalty on him.
In the trial surrounding the violent death of 14-year-old student Ayleen, the defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Gießen regional court for murder. On Thursday, the court also determined the particular gravity of the guilt and ordered preventive detention for the 30-year-old for, among other things, murder and attempted rape resulting in death. This means it is almost impossible for him to be released early after 15 years.
The man and the girl knew each other from sexualized chats and an online game. He had repeatedly demanded nude photos from the 14-year-old, putting pressure on her and also threatening to kill herself or harm her family members. At times, the German wrote the student hundreds of messages a day. The case is also considered an example of so-called cybergrooming, i.e. the initiation of sexualized contacts with minors over the Internet.
In the summer of 2022, riot police officers searched the shore of the Teufelsee in the Wetterau district in Hesse, where the body of 14-year-old Ayleen was found Photo: picture alliance/dpa
On July 21 last year, the man drove to the girl’s hometown in Gottenheim near Freiburg, picked up Ayleen there and took her to a forest near Langgöns in the Gießen district in Hesse. There he tried to rape the 14-year-old and strangled her. He dumped the girl’s body in Teufelsee near Echzell in the Wetterau district.
As a teenager at the age of 14, the man was convicted of attempted rape, attempted child abuse and grievous bodily harm and was placed in a psychiatric facility for around ten years.
During the murder trial, a psychiatric expert diagnosed him with antisocial personality disorder with psychopathic traits. At the same time, he considered him to be fully responsible and saw a high risk that the 30-year-old could kill again.