BERLIN (Reuters) – The main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann goes on trial in Germany on Friday on separate charges relating to child sexual abuse crimes in Portugal. Christian Brueckner, who is already behind bars in Germany for raping a woman in the part of Portugal’s Algarve region where McCann went missing, faces three charges of aggravated rape and two of sexual abuse of children committed between 2000 and 2017. Among the charges to which he will answer in the courtroom in Brunswick in northern Germany, are the rape of a woman in her 70s in her home in the Algarve, the sexual abuse of a girl aged at least 14, and the 2004 rape,…
Published Date: 2024-02-15
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Categories: Society, Crime, Sex Offenses, Support Groups, Sexual Abuse, Murder, Victims, Rape
