When a strange man fondles a woman on the ankle – is that already sexual harassment? To this question a process that was after two days of negotiations, with the setting of the procedure, and 800 Euro for the benefit of the victims of the help of the White Ring to the end turned.
Erding – was Accused of a 43-year-old man from Burghausen. To him, the public Prosecutor’s office in Landshut accused, on 29. April 2018 in a Sauna, the Spa, a woman Erding at the ankle caressed. The 46-Year-old, who was now asleep, and dismissed the man and complained to the staff. The put the man in front of the door.
the next day, the victim went to Dingolfing to the police and filed a police report. Then, a criminal command fluttered the divorced father of an 18-year-old child about 850 euros in the house.
Against the he put with his defense lawyer Susanne Straubinger-Meiller objection. Before judge Björn Schindler, it came at the Amtsgericht Erding, the negotiation. It was found that the 46-Year-old in their youth, the victim of a rape, which is why she is responding to men of a particularly sensitive nature. A police officer said the woman had been very upset.
The defendant said that he had seen the splayed legs of the sauna-goer as an invitation to get together. He caressed her ankle, but left immediately from her when she refused him, and apologized.
The two days of negotiations were witnesses proved to be very helpful, because they had, at best, indirectly related to the case. Judge Schindler suggested a setting of the procedure.
attorney Sandra Belling was not, initially, ready to Attack. The lawyer quoted from the interpretation of the law, according to which a Comforter, unless it is in the genital area, is not per se sexual harassment. In addition, the two lawyer were caught in a violent dispute. Schindler, a handle-solving manner, and suggested an anti-money edition. He gave 800 euros to be appropriate. Both sides agreed finally.
