In the trial against the 26-year-old defendant, who is said to have raped a ten-year-old girl in a Wunsiedel dormitory, a psychiatric expert stated that the man had so-called pedophilia in a secondary stream.
Experts play an important, sometimes crucial, role in court proceedings. With their expertise, they are supposed to reconstruct crime sequences or examine the accused, give answers to technical questions and, ideally, clear up doubts. Which often works. And sometimes not – like in the trial surrounding the rape of a ten-year-old girl in the St. Josef Home in Wunsiedel, where after the appearances of two experts there are almost more questions than before.