Sex offender is said to have abused children while on prison leave

While on prison leave, a sex offender from Lower Saxony is said to have relapsed and abused several children. The Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice announced that serious sexual assaults had occurred. After the 23-year-old was arrested in Bavaria in July 2025, the Aschaffenburg public prosecutor's office has now filed charges at the regional court there, as the investigators confirmed.

What is known so far is that the suspect has been serving a prison sentence of almost five and a half years in the youth center in Hameln, Lower Saxony, for similar offenses since April 2021. According to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice, he also received therapy there. “Bild” had previously reported.

Several releases before prison leave

Before his prison leave, he is said to have had several unaccompanied trips. In the meantime, these have been suspended because he is said to have used an exit to search for freely accessible images with his cell phone. According to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice, these may have been capable of causing sexual arousal. The relapse was dealt with therapeutically.

A prison leave was then granted in preparation for his release from prison. The 23-year-old is said to have had contact with several underage children. He was arrested again while on parole and has been back in custody ever since. According to the ministry from Lower Saxony, the case is currently being processed.

From August onwards in custody in Bavaria

After the end of his previous prison term in Lower Saxony, the prisoner is to be transferred to Bavaria at the beginning of August. There he should be taken straight back into custody for the new allegations.

Only recently, in Lower Saxony, a convicted murderer escaped during an accompanied release in Peine. The man visited his mother with a prison employee. According to the Ministry of Justice, it was the prisoner's 38th accompanying exit since September 2023. The previous 37 exits went without any problems. A day after the escape he was arrested in a traffic accident in Italy.