Overview
- The regional court in Schweinfurt sentenced the 56-year-old former janitor to two years and five months in prison, and the verdict is not yet final.
- He acknowledged assaults on at least four boys at the start of his appeal and said he would not challenge the accounts set out in the indictment.
- Most alleged incidents from around 2000 are now time-barred, which left only two cases that prosecutors could bring to trial.
- The first trial in January 2025 produced a three-year term for the janitor and a suspended 18‑month juvenile sentence for an educator born in 1981.
- Prosecutors, defense and victim counsel had jointly asked for a three-year term, but the higher court imposed a shorter sentence.