Austrian court pardons migrant who raped boy calling it 'sexual emergency'

Vienna: In a rare case, Supreme Court overturned the sentence of a 20-year-old migrant arrested for raping a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Austria.

According to a report in the Independent, the judges observed that the accused might have believed that the victim had consented to the sexual act.

The 10-year-old victim was brutally raped by the accused in a swimming pool cubicle at The Resienbad, and was found crying by the lifeguard. He was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, while the police found the migrant on the spot, amusing himself by diving into the pool over and over again.

On being questioned by the police, he responded saying that though he knew such an act was 'forbidden in any country of the world', it was a sexual emergency as he had not had sex in past four months. He added that he was not always sick as he had a wife and a daughter back home in Iraq.

After his arrest, the accused had reportedly told investigators that though he knew it was a mistake, he committed the act as ‘it was a case of sexual emergency’.

The migrant, who worked as a taxi driver in Vienna told the police that he could not help himself as he had ‘excess sexual energy’, and that he did not mean to scar the child.

According to official records, the migrant entered Austria through the Balkans last September.

The police did not reveal the details of the rape, which took place in December last, to protect the identity of the victim. But information emerged on Facebook, prompting the police to request sensitivity in matters concerning migrants, as ‘they have been through a lot.’