A trans-identified man from Germany has lost a final appeal of his conviction following the repeated sexual abuse of his daughter as a young girl. The 53-year-old man, originally of the German town of Witten, was contesting a sentence of just 22 months probation.
The man, who has not been named by German media, was first convicted in 2022 for sexually abusing his daughter, who had been placed in his care in 2013 when she was just 11 years old following his separation from his wife.
Over the course of the next four years, the girl was subjected to extreme sexual depravity. Her father began exposing himself to her by walking naked around the house, showing her sex toys, telling her his sexual fantasies, and masturbating in front of her. He also encouraged her to masturbate in front of him.
Paranoid that she would expose his abuse, the man placed the girl under strict surveillance. He set up security cameras in the house and created fake social media accounts to contact teachers and other trusted adults the girl had in her life in order to fabricate stories that would explain away any “unusual” or “liberal” behavior that the girl may display as a result of the abuse.
During the original case, the defendant repeatedly denied the allegations, but was ultimately convicted of the abuse of a child and a person entrusted to his care.
Despite the severity of the crime, the incestuous pedophile was only handed a two-year prison sentence without probation. However, the verdict was overturned after the Federal Court of Justice ordered a retrial due to mishandling of some case evidence. Less than a month before the retrial began in February of last year, the defendant, who claimed to be “intersex,” legally changed his gender registration to “female” and changed his first name.
On March 19, 2025, the defendant was once again convicted after a retrial. But because the retrial had followed a successful appeal, the sentence could not exceed the original punishment under German law.
His sentence was then reduced to 22-months probation, along with a €3,000 fine to be sent to a charitable organization, and restrictions on supervising minors at youth-related events. According to reports, this final restriction was imposed because the defendant had had repeated “professional” contact with minors.
Most notably, because he changed his legal sex prior to the retrial, German media highlighted that he had been convicted “as a woman” despite some of his crimes falling under sex-specific statutes which require the perpetrator be male.
Some German media outlets reported that a “woman” had sexually abused her daughter “as a father.“
Despite the new sentence involving no jail time at all, the man was unsatisfied and again attempted to launch an appeal to fully overturn his conviction. But the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe has rejected the appeal, making the previous ruling final. The man is no longer allowed to file any further appeals.
Notably, his name and legal gender change took place only a few months after Germany’s radical Self-Determination Act came into force in November 2024. Known as the SBGG, the Act established ‘gender identity’ as a protected characteristic and greatly relaxed the process behind changing legal documents through self-identification.
Supported by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition and promoted and supported by the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the SBGG also created the potential for citizens to be fined up to €10,000 (approx. $10,800 USD) for revealing a person’s given name and birth sex without their permission – an action that trans activists staunchly oppose and refer to as ‘deadnaming.’
For male convicts already in prison by the time the act was passed in April of 2025, multiple German states began transferring even violent convicted criminals to female prisons if they began identifying as transgender.
As a result, many female prisoners across Germany were repeatedly harassed and sexually assaulted by these male prisoners. In January 2025, the Federal States’ Ministry of Justice confirmed that at least five trans-identified male inmates had physically assaulted female inmates on several occasions, and that four of these men had been sexually aggressive. Two trans-identified male prisoners were eventually expelled from the female prison system after they were considered too high a threat to the other inmates.
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