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Suspended term for teenager who abused girl, 13
Reporter: Marina Berry
Date online: 17 September 2009
A FAMILY from Shaw today spoke of their relief after a German teenager was given a 21/2-year suspended prison sentence by a Turkish court after being found guilty of sexually abusing their 13-year-old daughter.
The father of the girl, who is now 15, told the Evening Chronicle today that the family was relieved it was now at an end and their daughter could move on with her life. He said: “It has been a terrible ordeal for her.”
The family was the target of a media frenzy shortly after the case went to court, forcing them to flee their home as TV crews, reporters and photographers camped outside. Police were forced to patrol the girl’s school and pupils were warned not to speak to foreign journalists posing as education officials.
Marcus Weiss, now 19, spent eight months in custody in a jail in the Mediterranean city of Antalya in 2007 on charges of sexually abusing a child, before he was released and returned to Germany.
The court said yesterday that he will remain free but be monitored over the next two years and six months, and required to serve his remaining prison term if he convicts a crime. The incident took place in April, 2007, in the resort of Side, near Antalya, where the two teenagers were holidaying with their families.
Weiss, who was 17 at the time, maintained that the two became close and ended up in the girl’s hotel bedroom one night where they had physical contact but not intercourse. He also said the girl had lied about her age and said she was 15. He was arrested the next day after the girl’s mother filed a complaint about him to police.
The conclusion of the case brings to an end a lengthy trial which caused controversy in Germany, where critics said it had gone on too long.
The girl cannot be named for legal reasons.
Comments
You should know, that the prosecution of Lüneburg in Germany clearly confirmed the innocence of Marco Weiss. The decision of the Turkish court has therefore no meaning in Germany and the suspendend sentence is only important if Marco would visit Turkey. In Germany the people have no doubt that the English girl lied about her age and that only Marco is the victim. There will be also a revision. Therefore it is wrong to say that there is an end.
But if her parents had acted responsibly & looked after her she would not have been entertaining men/boys in her bedroom in the first place. There is certainly more to this case than meets the eye.
In my opinion, there is only one victim: Marco. The only mistake he made was to put his trust in a girl he fell in love with during his holidays. Would anybody ask his new love for an identity card? Even the gynecologist, who examined the young girl, was surprised when he saw that she was just 13. Unfortunately the law - court ignored this fact - like many other facts, too.
By the way, there are no consequences for Marco over here -and the court had available the same files as the Turkish one.
The father only mentions the mess the media makes for them. He claims how difficult it became for the family because of the tv-crews, reporters and photographers.
Why doesn´t he mention the problems, the victim had about the trial and accusations itself ?
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The girl cannot be named for legal reasons. But the boy can named for legal reasons????
By WolMiSt @ 18/09/2009 16:40:14