“...the court’s president Thomas Philipp calling the verdict ‘watertight’ when it came to the sexual assault of a child, but that rape could not be sufficiently proved.”
Hopefully they mean that rape (lack of consent) WAS not proven, rather than COULD not be proven. I think so, otherwise there would not be a re-trial.
They will drag the victim through another proceeding, but I doubt that the perp will get away something this heinous, after basically confessing. It sounds to me like they are just crossing all the t’s and dotting all the i’s.
He is still convicted of sexual assault of a child, and the rape will probably stick on re-trial.
What is missing though, is the full-blooded outrage that this should inspire. Maybe if the boy was the son of a rich Autrian, they would get a bit more worked up.
Male homosexual pedophilia (pederasty) is sadly quite common in a lot of islamic societies today. Young boys for sex have always made up a significant chunk of the muslim slave trade. There are also boy prostitutes in those societies as well.
I hope the boy does not have to be part of any more trials. How awful for the boy and agree there needs to be more outrage.
In one of the stories concerning this case, I read that authorities asked the perp if it was legal to have sex with young boys in his country. The perp responded it was wrong in every country. What he said and what he feels may be two different things as it sounds like we both have read enough about this repulsive element in their culture.