Overview
- The 49-year-old employee was arrested and placed in custody at the request of the Hof public prosecutor's office, authorities said.
- Investigators report the alleged sexual assaults occurred between 2023 and 2025, involving a boy who is now nine years old.
- Police say the alleged acts happened at the suspect’s home in Hof rather than inside the Wunsiedel children’s home.
- Kriminalpolizei Hof searched the suspect’s property and seized multiple evidentiary items following a complaint filed by the boy’s mother in autumn 2025.
- The prosecutor’s office says there is currently no link to the 2023 killing of a child from the same institution, and further details are being withheld to protect the victim and the investigation.