Degrading action

“My daughter Anna’s no is worth so little”

Anna's mother (pictured above) was present at the trials against the boys. One of the defendants wanted to give her 100 euros - "as compensation for the endless suffering of my child". Who was once again re-traumatized by this degrading action.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Martina Prewein)

Over a period of months in 2023, 17 boys molested a then twelve-year-old girl in Vienna-Favoriten. Over and over again. But the atrocities committed by the gang of youths against the schoolgirl went unpunished. And her drama becomes even greater.

What else does she have to suffer? - Anna (name changed), a 14-year-old who fell into the clutches of a highly criminal youth gang in her former home district of Vienna-Favoriten in 2023, when she was just twelve. For months, the 17 boys - 13 to 19 years old, most of them of Arab descent - had then coerced the schoolgirl into sexual acts.