A German mother and her partner were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for selling the woman’s child online for sex.
The mother of the child was handed 12 years and six months in jail, while her partner will serve the term for 12 years, reported dpa international.
The woman’s partner confessed to the crime in June saying that he was the ‘driving force’ behind it. He further admitted to coercing his girlfriend into letting her son be raped and abused by men they found online. The mother also admitted to the crime in the court of law during the trial but did not reveal her motives behind being an accomplice to heinous act.
The mother and her companion — identified only as Berrin T., 48, and Christian L., 39, in keeping with German privacy laws — were convicted on Tuesday of sexually abusing her son over the course of two years, beginning when he was about 7. The abuse included inappropriate touching, rape and making videos that were placed as advertisements on the dark web for pedophiles — among them a German soldier — who paid the couple thousands of dollars to abuse the boy, reported the New York Times reported.
Two of the abusers in the case were fined 42,500 Euros, which is to be paid to the boy and a girl who was also a victim in the case.
A Spanish citizen was handed 10-years of imprisonment following his admission to raping the boy on 15 different occasions after paying the couple over 10,000 Euros.
Six others were also sentenced to prison for being a part of the crime.
(With ANI inputs)
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