Seventeen migrant minors were arrested last week after complaints of year-long sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl in Vienna. A day later, all but one were back on the streets.
A 12-year-old girl from Vienna whose recent police complaint led to the arrests of 17 migrant minors for alleged long-term sexual abuse has expressed fear for her safety after all but one of the suspects were released by police after just one day pending further investigation.
The gang of males, aged 13 to 18, were detained by Austrian police on Thursday after the schoolgirl was urged by her mother to tell the authorities about the torment she had endured for over a year at the hands of her then-boyfriend and his friends.
The complainant said she had been forced by her boyfriend to have sex with his friends before being passed around “like a trophy” for over a year.
The sexual abuse was allegedly filmed by several of the boys, and the victim claimed the footage was used to blackmail her into staying silent amid threats to send it to her family and friends.