Outrage in Germany: Judge sentences 20-year-old woman to prison for insulting a gang rapist on the Internet

• Nine attackers were found guilty in 2020 of raping a girl in a Hamburg city park

A woman has been sentenced to prison in Germany for making “hurtful remarks” towards a gang rapist after learning of his heinous crime.

The man was one of nine attackers found guilty of brutally raping a 15-year-old girl in a Hamburg city park – with all but one of the convicted men and teenagers remaining at large.

Anger grew online and his name and phone number were published. A 20-year-old woman was among those who sent him messages expressing their disgust at his cruel act.

“Without thinking twice,” the woman decided to take out her anger on him because she felt he deserved it, calling him a “dishonorable rapist pig” and a “disgusting monster.”

The judges found her guilty of a hate crime and sentenced her to 48 hours in a youth detention center.

The woman, who had no connection to the victim or the attackers, said she was so horrified by the rapes that she contacted one of the accused via WhatsApp after his identity circulated on Snapchat.

When she contacted him in 2021, prosecutors said, she warned him that he could never go anywhere again “without getting a punch in the face.” She has since apologized.

In addition, the police are investigating 140 other people for similar “hate comments” about the rapists, including death threats, torture fantasies and racist statements, reports the Hamburger Abendblatt.

The investigation and the verdict against the woman have sparked further outrage on the Internet. Many have sharply criticized the judge’s decision – especially in light of the fact that they consider the sentence to be lenient for the rapists.

During the trial, eight of the attackers, who were between 16 and 20 years old, were given suspended sentences and did not have to serve a prison sentence.

All nine people on trial were traced based on DNA evidence, which showed that they had sex with the teenager during a party in Hamburg’s city park in September 2020.

But while one of them, allegedly a 19-year-old, was sentenced to a youth prison sentence of two years and eight months and a tenth was acquitted, the others were released by the Hamburg Regional Court and half of them were sentenced to up to two years probation.

The other four got off even more lightly and received a six-month suspended sentence for raping the student.

None of the defendants were publicly named, but local media reported that five were from Hamburg and the other five were from abroad.

During the trial of the rapists, the court heard how the 15-year-old was abused by one group of men after another until a passerby called the police.

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