Eight years in prison

Drugged women abused: number of victims unclear!

The 63-year-old maintained his innocence - the women had allowed everything to happen to them voluntarily. However, the court expert established that one victim had clearly been given knockout drops!

(Bild: Wassermann Kerstin)

Time and again there are warnings about knockout drops in drinks that turn women into defenceless victims of sexual crimes. In Carinthia, a man has been tracked down who is said to have "worked" in exactly the same way - he raped defenceless women; in one case, there was even a baby lying next to him! It is unclear how many victims there are.

"Even as a hardened public prosecutor, I struggle with the gag reflex," says prosecutor Daniela Zupanc - and everyone in the courtroom at Klagenfurt Regional Court can understand it. Because the 63-year-old defendant has made videos of his sexual acts. And Judge Gernot Kugi did not hesitate to play one of these atrocities in public. In this case, the Carinthian man assaulted a woman who was fast asleep; her small child was lying next to her.

"It was all deliberate," he claims. The victim - as well as other women - had consented to his perverse practices. At least two women see it differently. And the videos speak for themselves. As does the expert opinion of the court expert, who clearly found a knockout drug in the blood and urine of one victim: "It's an extremely strong sleeping pill," explains Manfred Kollroser. "It works very quickly, the victims become defenceless and can no longer remember."

The sentence is swift: eight years in prison, not legally binding. Incidentally, it remains to be seen how many other victims there could be. "We found a large number of videos but were unable to identify them," says public prosecutor Zupanc. It is therefore possible that this is a serial offender!