40-year-old man charged with planned sexual assault against children under 12 in Randers
A 40-year-old man will appear on Thursday for a committal hearing at Randers Court, charged with planned abuse and particularly dangerous violence against several children.
40-year-old charged with planned sexual assault and violence against young children
A 40-year-old man is charged with attempted rape and particularly dangerous violence against several children under 12 years of age, according to the prosecution at East Jutland Police's Prosecutor Update service. This is reported by B.T.
According to police, the man had no relationship to the children and had planned the attacks at two separate flats – one incident last year and one this year. The attacks were never carried out because he failed to make contact with the children.
On Thursday at 09.30, the accused will appear for a committal hearing at Randers Court, where the prosecution is requesting he be remanded in custody. A judge will here decide whether the suspicion is sufficiently substantiated for deprivation of liberty. Before the court hearing, it has not been disclosed whether the man admits or denies guilt.
The charge of violence has been brought under section 246 of the Criminal Code concerning particularly dangerous violence – the most serious category in the Code's violence provisions. The provision applies in cases where serious violence has caused very serious injury or death under particularly aggravating circumstances.
At the court hearing, the prosecution will request the judge to close the courtroom. Press and other members of the public will in that case be asked to leave while the accused gives his account and the details of the investigation are presented. It will, however, still be possible to hear whether the man admits or denies guilt, just as the judgment on any remand in custody will be announced in open court.
Source: B.T.