A babysitter allegedly repeatedly abused a boy while staying with his family and sleeping in the child’s bunk bed.
Florian K., 37, is accused of abusing the 11-year-old boy almost 1,000 times while he was employed as the child’s babysitter in Munich, Germany, for seven years.
The boy’s parent, a single mother-of-two, had found Florian K. on a website for babysitters advertising their services in 2010, according to German daily Bild.
Unbeknownst to the mother, Florian K. already had a criminal record for sëxual abuse at the time which he hid from potential employers.Â
How It All Started
She hired him to care for her son, with Florian K. even becoming ‘a father figure for the victim’, according to the public prosecutor.
The babysitter soon started spending the night at the family’s home and sometimes even slept in the boy’s bunk bed.
But when ‘everyone else was asleep’, Florian K. abused the boy, then aged 11, the prosecutor alleges. The abuse is said to have happened for years, sometimes even daily.Â
Court Heard That…
He allegedly developed a code system with emojis and used it to announce the sëxual acts to the boy, for example by sending him an open mouth emoji to demand oral sëx.
Florian K. told the victim that while this normally was forbidden, in their case ‘it was different because they were both having fun’, the court heard.
He is now on trial at the Munich Regional Court after being charged with aggravated sëxual abuse of a child.
The babysitter is accused of abusing the boy at least 993 times by the time he turned 18 over a seven-year period.
He denied the charges and only admitted to abusing a six-year-old boy in 2008, for which he was sentenced to two years in youth detention at the time.
Florian K. told the court he was sëxually abused as a child himself while attending boarding school and complained about being ostracised because of his criminal record, which he said left him unable to find a job.
He then constructed a web of lies to make himself more employable, posing as a psychologist and even claiming to have his own children.
How He Was Caught Out
But he was found out when the boy, who is now 25, confided in a fellow student and notified police in 2023, with forces arresting Florian K. in early 2024 in Munich.
