Germany: Prisoner Murders Girlfriend During Conjugal Visit

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Prisoner Murders Girlfriend During Conjugal Visit

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,688736,00.html



Remscheid prison, where the incident occurred on Sunday.

A prisoner convicted of rape and murder killed his girlfriend during a conjugal visit at a German prison on Sunday. It is the latest in a series of incidents involving apparently lax security at German jails, and has sparked sharp criticism of prison authorities.

Justice authorities in western Germany are facing a barrage of criticism after a convicted rapist and murderer killed his girlfriend during a conjugal visit at a prison on Sunday.

Klaus-Dieter H., 50, who had been in jail for 19 years for raping and beating to death a nine-year-old girl, had been regularly allowed to have unsupervised meetings in jail with a 46-year-old single mother he had got to know five years ago. She had written him letters in the jail in Remscheid, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and they had fallen in love.

Soon after they met, they applied for permission to have conjugal visits in what prisoners called the "love cell," and received permission. "The two wanted to stay together after his release, that's why we allowed the visits without supervision -- so that the relationship would have a chance," prison director Katja Grafweg told a news conference.

The woman visited Klaus-Dieter H. shortly after 9 a.m. on Sunday morning. As usual, they were permitted to spend six hours together without supervision. When prison guards unlocked the cell after the time was up, a horrific scene awaited them: The woman was lying dead on the floor, half-naked, with a fractured skull, four stab wounds in the chest and strangulation marks on her neck.

[Lance_Boyle]

1. OK, so blaming the victim is generally frowned upon, but

what exactly does one expect to happen when one seeks out and establishes a relationship with a convicted rapist and murderer? "Oh, I'm sure he would never rape and murder ME like he did that (those?) other girl(s)." She wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, was she?

As for Frau Grafweg, she probably needs to be looking for a new line of work.

[Statistical]

2. I never understood that.

I mean he is in prison for RAPE & MURDER.

Not that I would recommend dating prisoner but dating a car thief, or burglar at least passes some level of logic?

Who says. "Hey I think I should start dating a rapist?"

Who would predict that a man in prison for violence against women (rape and murder) would .... <drum roll> commit violence against a women? I mean it is utterly shocking.