An Austrian court docket on Tuesday discovered actor Florian Teichtmeister (pic) responsible of possessing and producing tens of hundreds of information of child intercourse abuse photos and sentenced him to a two-year suspended jail sentence.
Teichtmeister beforehand pleaded responsible to gathering and, in some instances, processing, information containing depictions of the sexual abuse of youngsters, public broadcaster ORF reported. Teichtmeister was not accused of photographing or filming acts of abuse himself.
The Vienna state court docket additionally dominated that the 43-year-old should endure remedy and often undergo drug assessments. If he violates these circumstances, he faces placement in a middle for mentally ailing offenders.
“He mentioned he’ll work intensively on himself, in order that nothing goes to occur once more,” his lawyer Rudolf Mayer mentioned, including that Teichtmeister would proceed to go to weekly remedy classes.
Teichtmeister is a former member of Vienna’s well-known Burgtheater. He additionally performed Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph within the 2022 film Corsage.
The actor accepted the decision and shunned interesting, ORF reported.
Judge Stefan Apostol mentioned the truth that Teichtmeister was ailing, remorseful and keen to endure remedy performed a job within the verdict, ORF reported.
Prosecutor Julia Kalmar, in the meantime, had confused in court docket that Teichtmeister had not solely collected an enormous quantity of sexually abusive photos of youngsters for a few years, however had additionally added “pedo-sadistic texts” to those photos in a manner she had by no means seen earlier than throughout her profession, she mentioned, in keeping with ORF.
Kalmar learn out a number of violent passages Teichtmeister had written, whereas he seemed motionlessly on the desk in entrance of him.
According to prosecutors, about 47,500 of the 76,000 information Teichtmeister owned present kids underneath the age of 14.
The actor additionally confessed in court docket that he had at occasions used three grams of cocaine per day for months. “I used to be by no means sober,” Teichtmeister mentioned, including that this had led to an escalation of his violent fantasies, ORF reported. – AP
