Overview
- A criminal probe in Graz, Austria, has found numerous storage devices that investigators are forensically analysing and that appear to show many victims, with prosecutors confirming at least one minor among them.
- A Graz internist who also worked in Switzerland is barred from practising while police, who say eight victims are known so far, ask anyone who may have been affected to come forward.
- In a separate case, Germany’s Landgericht Hannover on June 16 convicted a former anesthetist of sexually abusing children and possessing child‑pornographic material and sentenced him to three years in prison, a verdict that is not yet final.
- Prosecutors say the Hannover doctor exploited anesthesia to photograph unconscious patients over years, with the youngest identified victim aged eight, and Croatian authorities helped expose the files after finding material at a naturist camp.
- Both cases show how cross‑border police cooperation and forensic review of phones and drives are central to uncovering long‑running abuse in clinical settings and may prompt more reports, institutional reviews and legal challenges over old evidence.