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Judith Rakers Reveals Childhood Sexual Assaults In Podcast

Her testimony strengthens a wider reckoning with sexualized violence in Germany linked to the Collien Fernandes case.

Overview

  • The former Tagesschau presenter told listeners in her Baborie & Rakers podcast that she endured more than one assault as a child as her co-host fought back tears.
  • She recalled being about seven when a man in a forest threatened her with a dog, grabbed her arm, and rubbed it against his erect penis.
  • She said she told her parents after the forest attack, and police caught a suspect weeks later without a lineup because he was tied to other, worse crimes.
  • In a separate case around age eleven, she said a man on a school bus began masturbating and rubbed his arm on her until she stood up and told him to stop, which led him to get off at the next stop.
  • Rakers said she spoke now to help break the silence in the debate over Collien Fernandes’ allegations against actor Christian Ulmen, which Balearic authorities are examining and which Ulmen denies.