Somali man molests 11-year-old girl on train in Germany: In his native culture, “a real man” doesn’t ask a woman for long

It was supposed to be a light-hearted visit to her aunt. But the train journey to Dorfen turned into a horror trip for a little girl from Landshut. As the eleven-year-old later told the police, she had already noticed the man sitting opposite her on the train at the station. According to the indictment, the Somali man stroked her bare knee twice. When she moved away, he followed her. Passengers came to her aid.

When he arrived at the railway station in Dorfen, the 29-year-old gave her and her aunt the finger. In his culture, “a real man” does not ask a woman for a long time, but grabs her, he later told a police officer, who described the accused as a witness as “out of control” and aggressive.

District court doctor Dr Hubert Näger spoke of a schizophrenic disorder. The Berggrub prison records state that the 29-year-old talked to his dead mother and sometimes picked and ate leaves from the trees while walking around the yard. According to Näger, however, the accused’s behaviour towards the girl and other people on July 7 was due to an alcohol addiction.

The accused reported that he had arrived in Germany in 2015 in order to lead a better life. “But that didn’t work out.” The 29-year-old denied the allegations. He had only grabbed the girl’s knee “comfortingly” because she seemed overstrained on the overcrowded train.

He also denied another disgusting accusation: the public prosecutor accused him of exposing himself to a woman and her two-year-old child on the platform and showing his penis. However, the 29-year-old explained that he was holding a bottle of vodka in one hand and a can of Red Bull in the other. How could he have dropped his trousers?

To make matters worse, the man had already been convicted once for sexual harassment and had now breached the conditions. However, the court had to drop the case on this point.

Defence lawyer Marcus Gottschalk explained that it was a case of one word against another. He himself admitted that his client had touched the girl. However, there was no evidence of sexual motivation. And in the other cases, he said, there were many witnesses “reporting at random”. He therefore demanded an acquittal. His client’s problem was the alcohol.

Judge Stefan Kolb, however, considered the girl to be credible, as did the witnesses. He ultimately sentenced the 29-year-old to a total prison sentence of nine months for sexual harassment, threatening behaviour, insulting behaviour and exhibitionist acts, which was two months less than the prosecution had requested. In his judgement, Kolb said to the defendant: “You are the problem, not the alcohol.”

Dorfen Amtsgericht Prozess Elfjährige im Zug sexuell belästigt Landshut (merkur.de)