Criminal charges have been filed against Ayleen’s killer.
Five months after the body of 14-year-old Ayleen from Baden-Württemberg was found, the public prosecutor’s office in Giessen, Hesse, brought charges against a 30-year-old. The man from Hesse is accused of murdering the student, the public prosecutor announced on Thursday. In September, the suspect confessed to killing the girl.
Ayleen disappeared on July 21 in Gottenheim in the Baden-Württemberg district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and was found dead in a lake in the Hessian Wetteraukreis about 300 kilometers away a good week later. On the same day, special police forces arrested the then 29-year-old suspect in Friedrichsdorf near Frankfurt am Main.
The investigation has now been completed, the public prosecutor announced. She accuses the man of driving Ayleen in his car from Gottenheim to a forest near Langgöns-Cleeberg in Hesse. There he killed her. The prosecution assumes that the act was sexually motivated. Then he is said to have brought the corpse to Teufelsee.
122 witnesses heard
Among other things, the investigators evaluated cell phone data from the suspect. They found out that Ayleen and the man apparently met each other in April via a messenger app and exchanged many messages. More than 30,000 chats were evaluated in total, the public prosecutor said. In addition, 122 witnesses were heard and several forensic and forensic reports were obtained.
Now the public prosecutor’s office accuses the 30-year-old of murder, attempted rape resulting in death, confiscation of minors, coercion, driving without a license and procuring child pornographic content. If he is convicted, he faces life imprisonment and preventive detention, the authorities said. The Giessen district court will now decide whether to admit the charges. (AFP/chs)