German woman sentenced to heavier sentence for defamation than rapist

A German woman After she called him a “disgraceful rapist pig”, he was sentenced to a sentence harsher than that of a rapist.

Maja R, 20, was jailed for a weekend for defaming the man, who was one of the nine attackers A 15-year-old girl was gang-raped in a Hamburg park Four years ago, according to reports.

Due to his age, the man was only sentenced to probation and does not have to serve any prison sentence. According to the New Zealand Herald.

Maja R. reportedly did not know the rapist but was one of at least 140 people who sent him derogatory messages via WhatsApp after his name and phone number were leaked on Snapchat.

“Don’t you feel ashamed when you look in the mirror?” she wrote, calling him a “disgraceful rapist pig” and a “disgusting freak.”

She also told the offender that “you’re going to get kicked in the face no matter where you go” and said: “I hope you’re just locked up.”

Maja R. told the court she sent the message “without hesitation” – a brave move in a country with extremely strict defamation laws.

However, the paediatric nursing student did apologise to her rapist, telling the court “it didn’t help anybody”.

The man, who the New Zealand Herald did not name, was one of nine teenagers convicted in September 2020 of abusing a 15-year-old girl for several hours.

Almost all escaped jail time under German juvenile law, with the exception of one Iranian citizen who openly admitted responsibility for the rape, telling the court: “What man wouldn’t want this?”

Maja R. received a harsher sentence than the rapist she slandered because she had a history of theft and did not attend court hearings in the case.

A court spokesman told local media that Maya R’s hostility was emblematic of the anger the country still feels over the rape case even four years later.

He said the case had “reached worrying new heights” and described the criticism as a “targeted attack on the rule of law”.

Germany is known to have strict defamation laws that make even the slightest defamation a crime.

In Germany, calling someone an “idiot” can result in a prison sentence of up to two years.