On 2 December , at the Theresienbad swimming pool in the Austrian capital Vienna , a year-old boy was raped. The perpetrator, a year-old Iraqi refugee who had arrived in the country two months earlier, claimed that he was motivated by not having sex for four months. The crime became public knowledge in February , and in June the man was sentenced to a minimum six years in jail. In October, the Supreme Court of Austria overturned his rape conviction and ordered a retrial.
At the retrial his sentence was increased to 7 years. In May , the man's sentence was reduced to four years. The crime was one of several at the time which led to anti-refugee sentiment in Austria, and the overturning of the original conviction was condemned by Russian president Vladimir Putin. The perpetrator, identified as Amir A. He had emigrated via Baghdad in search of work in Europe, intending to travel to Sweden, [ 1 ] but after being stopped from further travel through Hamburg , Germany, he made his way to Austria in September The victim, identified by the alias "Goran", was born in Vienna as the son of Serbian refugees.
Amir A. The boy was raped and the perpetrator ejaculated on the victim's torso. The victim was restrained by the perpetrator, causing bruising to the hips, and ignored the boy's crying, verbal pleads to stop and attempts to reach for the door handle. The man then left and continued diving at the pool. The crime was not made public knowledge until February , with the police giving the reason as to protect the victim.
The perpetrator said that the sight of the boy "aroused [him] so much [he] could not hold back" [ 5 ] and that he had not had sex for four months as his partner had been ill since giving birth.
The perpetrator further stated that he "followed his desires" because he had "a marked surplus of sexual energy" and knew that his act would be illegal in any country of the world. In court, it was heard that the victim had been profoundly disturbed by the crime, and was considering suicide. In October , the Austrian Supreme Court overturned the man's conviction of rape, ordering a retrial, while upholding his second charge of aggravated sexual assault of a minor.
