Germany: Court says schoolgirl’s relationship with uncle that began when she was 14 can continue

[Artaxerxes II]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/72 ... t-continue

A SCHOOLGIRL'S relationship with her uncle that started when she was 14 will be allowed to continue after a court in Germany ruled the pair had a right to be together.

The red-haired teen Josephine Petritz from Schildow, a town in the German state of Brandenburg, has been in the relationship with her uncle Gerrit Haager for more than two years.

The now 16-year-old Josephine ran away with the 48-year-old last year after the police started a search for the couple.

The girl's worried parents contacted the police after losing contact with her, and they were later found in southern France.

But after coming back to Germany, Josephine still continued to refuse her parents' demand that she break up with her uncle, and they even took her to a psychiatric clinic, keeping her there for several weeks in a bid to get her to change her mind.

She was only released when she managed to arrange her own legal counsel, who got her freed and filed a legal challenge for the right to a relationship of her own choice.

And now the regional appeal court of Brandenburg has confirmed the ruling in favour of the couple.

The presiding judge said it was important to "get the relationship out of secrecy".

According to the court's opinion, the prohibition of love is a threat to the child's well-being.

In the ruling, the court noted that Josephine has clear views and priorities, which she has also claimed and demanded.

Additionally, she has consistently expressed her desire for a relationship with her uncle as "goal-oriented and stable".

The decision also notes that Josephine has an "above average intelligent" and was a "girl who had matured early and quickly reflected a lot on what she wanted".

The court's opinion summarised that while "the relationship may be undesirable and socially ostracised, it is not forbidden."

In Germany the age of sexual consent is 14, like in most European countries, as long as a person over the age of 21 does not exploit a 14- to 15-year-old person's lack of capacity for sexual self-determination.

Paediatric and adolescent psychotherapist Barbara Breuer-Radbruch advised that parents should generally seek contact, talk, and discuss solutions with the child.

The therapist said that the parents may have inadvertently encouraged the relationship saying: "Josephine felt betrayed and persecuted."

I wonder if the judge behind the case would have given the same verdict had Josephine been younger than 14 at the time of the relationship. Personally, I doubt it.

[Artaxerxes II]

Reminds me of that English anime VA who re-married with a 16 yo girl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illich_Guardiola

In April 2014, Guardiola was pulled over by Spring Branch Police and was found to have one of his 16-year-old students with him, who told investigators they were in a sexual relationship. Later that month, Guardiola and the teen traveled to Las Vegas and were married in the presence of the teen's mother.[3] Guardiola was subsequently arrested on May 8, 2014, and charged with sexual assault of a child.[4] On September 5, 2014, the charges were dismissed, since both the teen in question and her parents insisted that the relationship was consensual, refusing to press charges or to cooperate with police investigators.

[BLueRibbon]

Good for Germany in dealing with this case logically.

[Cunny Defender]

Some good news for a change! How amazing! I need more of this; it does really give me some hope in this dark world

[FairBlueLove]

According to the court's opinion, the prohibition of love is a threat to the child's well-being.

THIS is what protection of minors really means. And it is just commonsense. How rare nowadays...