Mandy Kopp

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Mandy Kopp (born 1976 in Leipzig ) is a German author and was a victim of child prostitution . She is considered to be the most important and prominent witness in the so-called " Saxon Marsh Scandal".

Life

Mandy Kopp's father died when she was twelve years old. Her mother became addicted to alcohol. Kopp states that her cousin sexually abused her since she was eight. It was only when she was ten years old that a complaint was filed. At the age of 16, Kopp tried to commit suicide after her first great love broke and she had a violent argument with her mother. She ran away with a 13-year-old friend in November 1992. Kopp and a friend were brought to a girls' flat on Merseburger Strasse, which turned out to be a children's brothel. The man who picked her and her friend off the street became their pimp and raped and beat them repeatedly. After being freed from the children's brothel, Kopp went to a Catholic boarding school and continued to grow up with foster parents. She made up her secondary school diploma there. She married at the age of 18. Kopp is an artist and entrepreneur in Rhineland-Palatinate and a partner in the Kopp & Dassbach GbR. After being freed from the children's brothel, she suffered from depression and panic attacks for a long time. She was also found to have cancer of the abdomen , which was cured.

Saxon Marsh Scandal

On January 28, 1993, the children's brothel "Jasmin" was stormed by the police and the girls were freed.

The pimp Martin Kugler was later sentenced to four years and two months imprisonment for human trafficking in the act of pimping , promoting prostitution and sexual abuse of children . In 2000 he testified that Judge Jürgen Niemeyer had offered him to reduce the sentence if he did not testify against the clients of the child prostitutes. He later retracted this statement. Kopp and another victim named Beatrice E. stated that they recognized Niemeyer and public prosecutor Norbert Röger as suitors. The statements could not be proven and the proceedings against the two accused were dropped. In addition, both Kopp and Beatrice E. were charged with defamation in 2008 and the process began in 2012. Kopp stated that she was intimidated during interrogations. In addition, the Dresden public prosecutor repeatedly referred to her as a “prostitute”, although she saw herself as a rape victim. In 2009, Kopp tried again to file charges of rape and assault against Kugler. However, no proceedings were initiated because the offenses were already statute-barred at this point in time. She was also informed that Jasmin would no longer be investigated against any suitors because these acts were also statute-barred.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Heike Vowinkel: "Martyrdom of the forced prostitutes Mandy Kopp". In: The world . March 9, 2013, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Chantal Louis: Mandy: She survived. In: Emma . May 1, 2013, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Björn Menzel: "Gone through Hell". In: mirror. Spiegel Online , March 22, 2013, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jana Simon: In the swamp. In: The time . March 1, 2012, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Mandy Kopp: Mandy Kopp. In: mandykopp.de. Mandy Kopp, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Björn Menzel: How the judiciary stigmatized Mandy Kopp. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel, April 6, 2013, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jana Simon: In the swamp. In: zeit.de. Zeit, March 1, 2012, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Björn Menze: Former forced prostitutes: How the judiciary stigmatized Mandy Kopp. In. Spiegel Online, April 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kopp, Mandy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and victim of child prostitution
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig