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Police LOSE almost all evidence against two paedophiles who allegedly raped 30 children 1,000 times

Suspect Andreas V, pictured with his foster daughter, who he is alleged to have raped (CEN)
Suspect Andreas V, pictured with his foster daughter, who he is alleged to have raped (CEN)

German police have admitted that almost all of the evidence in a massive paedophile case has gone missing.

At least 31 children as young as four were allegedly raped more than 1,000 times by main suspect Andreas V., 56, and his campsite neighbour Mario S., 33.

The men are alleged to have raped the minors at their temporary homes at the rundown Eichwald caravan park in Luegde, a town in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The case has shocked Germany, and the news of the loss of a suitcase containing 155 critical pieces of evidence which had not yet been reviewed has prompted further outrage.

The suitcase reportedly contained 155 CDs and DVDs from Andreas V.’s trailer, which had gone missing from the police station in the Lippe district.

Only three of the 155 data carriers with a total of 0.7 terabyte of data on it had so far been reviewed.

Mario S. is also under investigation (CEN)
Mario S. is also under investigation (CEN)

Interior Minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul, said that “also in the analysis it came to serious technical errors” as cops forgot to make copies of all the data carriers which is a normal procedure if such evidence is received.

To investigate the loss, Minister Reul has ordered a special unit of four officers to look into the missing evidence.

He said: “All this leaves me stunned. It’s a disaster. It’s a failure of the police. Such mistakes must never happen. To the victims and their families I can only say that I am so sorry. I again apologise for it.”

The disappearance of the data was only noticed on 30 January and the discs were last seen on 20 December.

Minister Reul said that the room in which the evidence was stored was not as secure as it should have been.

He added that he “does not exclude anything” when asked if the evidence might have been stolen on purpose or if it has simply been lost.

The campground in Luedge, Germany, where the abuse is alleged to have happened (CEN)
The campground in Luedge, Germany, where the abuse is alleged to have happened (CEN)

According to police sources, the number of young victims identified in the case now stands at 31 – 27 girls and four boys aged between four and 13 years old – and the number of suspected rapes runs to well over 1,000.

The rapes were allegedly filmed by the perpetrators and broadcast over the darknet.

According to the public prosecutor’s office, Mario S. is seen abusing children in some of the horrific videos he created with Andreas V.

Andreas V. is suspected of not only raping his foster daughter, but also using her as bait to lure other children to his rundown holiday home.

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Just like the 56-year-old suspect, Mario S. was jobless and still lived at home with his parents.

According to reports, an investigation into the suspected child abuse committed by Andreas V. goes back as far as 2008.

He and Mario S. allegedly sent footage to a third man, aged 48, who was arrested on suspicion of ordering the abuse.

The 48-year-old man from the town of Stade in the state of Lower Saxony allegedly watched the men rape a young girl on the darknet twice.

The men are alleged to have raped the minors at their temporary homes at the rundown Eichwald caravan park in Luegde (CEN)
The men are alleged to have raped the minors at their temporary homes at the rundown Eichwald caravan park in Luegde (CEN)

The missing evidence is not the first massive police blunder in the case as prosecutors are also investigating whether the police should have known about the mass rapes before.

The first warnings about the mass child abuse were passed on to the authorities in 2016.

Father-of-two Jens Ruzsitska reported Andreas V. to both the cops and youth welfare office after he allegedly saw him grope children at a birthday party in the town of Bad Pyrmont, but no action was taken.

The youth welfare office of Hamelin in Lower Saxony also learned about the alleged sexual abuse when workers at the local job centre called for an investigation into Andreas V.

He reportedly appeared with his foster daughter because he needed money and a worker found it suspicious that the girl said that she could no longer stand the smell of men.

According to local media, in a joint meeting with job-centre workers Andreas V. even confessed that his foster daughter “turned him on” but that she did not want anything to do with his overtures anymore.

All three suspects are currently being held in investigative custody while investigations are ongoing.