Let Chile Nazi sect doctor serve child abuse term in Germany, say prosecutors
Source: Agence France-Presse
Let Chile Nazi sect doctor serve child abuse term in Germany, say prosecutors
Agence France-Presse in Berlin
Tuesday 7 June 2016 13.54 EDT
A German doctor who was convicted in Chile for complicity in child sex abuse at a Nazi paedophile sect should serve out his sentence in Germany, prosecutors have argued.
Hartmut Hopp, 76, was the right-hand man of the convicted paedophile Paul Schäfer, who in 1961 founded the notorious German commune Colonia Dignidad, in Chile, where residents were indoctrinated and kept as virtual slaves over three decades.
Schäfer also collaborated with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, whose secret police used the colony – which lies about 215 miles (350km) south of the capital, Santiago – as a place to torture opponents.
Hopp was convicted in 2011 for complicity in 16 cases of child sex abuse, but returned to Germany before the final court ruling was imposed two years later.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/07/hartmut-hopp-chile-nazi-sect-doctor-germany-sentence
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German court asked to jail Chile sect doctor Hartmut Hopp
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Hartmut Hoppe was convicted in Chile for complicity in child sex abuse in 2011
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German prosecutors have asked a court to enforce a jail sentence passed on a doctor convicted in Chile of child sex abuse at a secretive German commune.
Prosecutors in the town of Krefeld say Hartmut Hopp should serve a five-year sentence given to him by a Chilean court in 2011.
Hopp, who is now 72, fled to Germany before he could begin the sentence.
The crimes took place at Colonia Dignidad, a commune founded by former Nazi officer Paul Schaefer in 1961.
He died in prison in 2010 after serving a prison sentence for sexually abusing children there. Hopp was part of Schaefer's inner circle and represented Colonia Dignidad in its external affairs. He was convicted of 16 counts of aiding in the sexual abuse of children.
More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36474940
I know, I know, this guy is a real son-of-a-bitch.
To say the least.
But I had to throw this in here, just to lighten the mood.