In the nursing home

“Adore her”: did an academic take offense at mom?

The academic was in the dock for abusing his own mother.

(Bild: Wassermann Kerstin/Krone KREATIV)

"I adore her," says an academic about his beloved mother, who at just 59 years old lives in a care home due to particularly severe Alzheimer's dementia. But where does intimate affection end and abuse begin? Questions that were answered not only by the Klagenfurt Regional Court, but also by the Supreme Court.

Every abuse trial is terrible, every victim of sexual violence one too many. But this trial at the Klagenfurt Regional Court is particularly repulsive - because a son is accused of having assaulted his own mother, who was severely affected by a particularly insidious early dementia!