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In a shocking conclusion to one of Germany’s most depraved child abuse cases, a Munich court has handed down the sentences for a millionaire pedophile and his transgender accomplice who were involved in the depraved sexual abuse and trafficking of prepubescent girls.
A Munich court has ruled that 81-year-old millionaire Helmut Reiner Dorsch must serve 4 years and 4 months in prison for his role in the crime, while his transgender assistant, known only as Arbend S., will serve 5 years and 6 months for his role.
Reduxx can now exclusively reveal that Arbend, a 31-year-old male who identifies as a “trans woman,” received particular leniency in his sentencing due to his self-declared transgender status, with the court citing his “heightened prison sensitivity” as a mitigating factor.
The trial, which began in September of 2024 and spanned 46 days, exposed a sickening collaboration between Dorsch, a multi-millionaire, and Arbend, who procured young girls for Dorsch to abuse at his villa in Pullach, Munich. As previously reported by Reduxx, Dorsch had a preference for girls “as small and slim as possible,” often under 8 years old. He paid thousands of euros for them to be delivered to his mansion so that he could rape them.
Presiding judge Matthias Braumandl described the two as “symbiotically intertwined,” noting that Dorsch viewed children as “mere sexual objects” and displayed a “life-dominating obsession” with pedophilia. But Dorsch depended on Arbend to access his victims, who reportedly had a “remarkable ability” to gain children’s trust and lure them to Dorsch, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The court established that Dorsch and Arbend met in 2018 through an online platform, where Dorsch paid Arbend for sexual services and repeatedly asked Arbend to procure children for abuse in exchange for thousands of euros. Arbend complied, and personally delivered children to Dorsch’s villa.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, Dorsch is said to have first sought out vulnerable mothers on the internet between 2005 and 2017 in order to coerce them into prostitution and making their daughters available for sexual abuse in exchange for money.
According to the Rheinische Post, at least two women handed their children over to him and were even present during the rape. In one of the sickening incidents, a 12-year-old girl was forced to call Dorsch “daddy” while he sexually abused her.
During another occasion, Arbend invited a friend with a 5-year-old daughter to Munich for a spa day, offering to watch the child while the unsuspecting mother enjoyed wellness treatments he had organized. While she was at the spa, Arbend took the girl to Dorsch’s estate. At the villa, Dorsch undressed the child, leaving her naked to walk around and then forced her to sit on his lap to abuse her. Dorsch paid Arbend €1,800 for this act. On another occasion, Arbend is said to have arranged for Dorsch to rape his 7-year-old cousin.
Arbend subsequently demanded more money from Dorsch, secretly recording him abusing children to use the footage as leverage in financial demands. By threatening to release the videos, he extorted an additional €200,000 from Dorsch.
The pair also planned a large-scale “child abuse program,” using drastic language about how they could rape six children at the same time and discussing details such as food provisions for their captive victims. Braumandl noted that this “orgy,” as the pair called it, was meticulously planned but fortunately never executed.
Arbend and Dorsch were taken into custody in June of 2023 after authorities began investigating Arbend’s online activity. A raid on Dorsch’s villa uncovered hundreds of child abuse recordings, including images of infants, while Arbend was found to have created child pornography by altering adult content.
Dorsch also contacted a woman through the online platform “mysugardaddy,” instructing her to visit his home dressed in childlike clothing and to role-play as his 8-year-old daughter. During the encounter, he showed her child pornography, played recordings of his own acts of child abuse, and attempted to pressure her into procuring children for him, offering payment. She refused and left.
On May 6, 2025, the 20th Criminal Chamber of Munich Regional Court I delivered its verdict. Dorsch was convicted of severe sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography, and planning sexual abuse of children, receiving 4 years and 4 months in prison. The court also considered Dorsch’s prior conviction for possessing child pornography, which resulted in a fine but did not deter his actions, a point Braumandl criticized for lacking sufficient investigative rigor, according to the press release from Munich Higher Regional Court.
Arbend was convicted of severe sexual abuse of children, forced prostitution, extortion, and producing child pornography. But despite the severity of his crimes, he was handed a prison sentence of just 5 years and 6 months, with the court citing his “heightened prison sensitivity” without further explanation.
Reduxx contacted the Press Office for Criminal Matters at the Munich Higher Regional Court to clarify the lenient sentencing. A court spokesperson confirmed that Arbend’s self-identification as a “trans woman“ was a factor in the consideration of “heightened prison sensitivity.”
The spokesperson stated that Judge Braumandl, during the oral justification of the verdict, noted “that he assumes a heightened prison sensitivity for a trans-person, so that pre-trial detention, unlike the usual case, exceptionally served as a mitigating factor in this instance.” It was further verified that Arbend is housed in a men’s prison but was addressed with feminine pronouns throughout the trial, per his request.
The decision to take Arbend’s transgender identity into consideration for sentencing comes as Germany’s Self-Determination Act, in force since November 2024, has come under increasing scrutiny. The law allows individuals to change their name and legal sex with a simple declaration at the registry office, even while incarcerated.
A similar case reported by Reduxx in March highlights ongoing concerns about Germany’s judicial approach to trans-identified offenders.
In Gießen, a 42-year-old trans-identified male, known as “Sophie KoKo,” received 10 months probation for exposing his genitals to migrant children, soliciting them for sexual abuse, and spraying them with urine, with the court citing his actions as an attempt to “affirm his femininity.”
Like Arbend’s case, KoKo’s self-declared transgender status resulted in a lenient sentence, raising alarms about prioritizing perpetrators’ identities over child safety under Germany’s Self-Determination Act.
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