The women and girls - Deutschland
For Germany, we have so far found thirteen women and girls killed in sexual violence that is claimed to be consensual. One is a British woman, Anna, whose German boyfriend awaits trial for her death in Switzerland, and one is an unnamed German woman killed in Sweden by her boyfriend: he was acquitted of killing her. Of the eleven women whose killings were prosecuted in German courts, three perpetrators received suspended sentences - these men were convicted of negligent homicide, a form of manslaughter. In Germany, those found guilty of unlawful killing may be convicted of Mord - murder; Totschlag - deliberate killing but without “murderous intent” or base motives, perhaps equivalent to culpable homicide in Scotland or manslaughter in England; or fahrlässige Tötung - negligent homicide.
In Germany, the women’s full names and images are not often released in the media - this has made it more difficult to find these women’s cases, although we have respected this approach. German press reporting of the detail of these cases can be extremely lurid, and - in common with reporting elsewhere - will often repeat uncritically the words of the men accused of these killings.
We have found no cases of a German woman killing or injuring a man in a Sexspiele, gone wrong.
