Tatort Internet - Finally protect our children

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Television series
Original title Tatort Internet - Finally protect our children
Country of production Germany
year 2010
Episodes 10
Broadcasting
cycle		 weekly
Moderation Udo Nagel
Stephanie zu Guttenberg
Beate Krafft-Schöning
First broadcast October 7, 2010 on RTL II

Tatort Internet - Finally protect our children is a German television series on RTL II , which was broadcast between October 7, 2010 and November 22, 2010 and dealt in ten episodes with the sexual abuse of children, especially in the context of the Internet. It is located in the area between documentation , docu-soap and reality TV .

content

The series, conceived in ten episodes, was produced by Diwafilm and moderated by the former Hamburg Senator for the Interior, Udo Nagel . The German chairwoman of Innocence in Danger , Stephanie zu Guttenberg , acted as co-moderator in the first episode . RTL II described the program as a reportage and investigative format . Their concept was based on the controversial US format To Catch a Predator , which was broadcast by MSNBC from 2004 to 2007 , but anonymized the perpetrators. The television series confronted men who believed they had arranged meetings with children in Internet chats ( cyber grooming ) in front of the camera about their behavior and their sexual motivation. The adult actors in the series mostly presented themselves as 13-year-olds. The men concerned were pretended to be contact with children by adults on the Internet. They were then confronted as potential criminals in front of the camera at an arranged meeting. According to RTL II, the show is supported by Xavier Naidoo .

RTL II announced that it would be launching a DVD containing, among other things, excerpts from the program and intended to educate and prevent sexual abuse. According to the Commission for Approval and Supervision of the State Media Authorities (ZAK), the first episodes of the program violated the program principles anchored in the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty, according to which personal rights must be adequately protected.

Audience ratings

The first program had a market share of 7.7% and the program was seen by 1.34 million viewers. In the second episode, the values ​​remained largely unchanged (7.3%, 1.35 million). Almost a million viewers were of the age relevant for advertising . The previous PR - especially by the Bildzeitung - was initially rated as successful. For the third episode, the numbers fell to 6.0% market share in the target group and 1.21 million viewers. The advertising industry distanced itself from the controversial show, which postponed its start slightly due to the lack of spots .

Legal background

The background to the series is a debate about the criminal liability of cyber grooming. On the one hand, “acting” on a child through “writing” in order to bring him to sexual acts is threatened with imprisonment for up to five years if the acts are to be carried out in front of or on the perpetrator or a third party. (Section 176 (3) StGB ). On the other hand, in the case of one of the exposed men, RTL II denied that his behavior was criminal. The Bavarian CSU - Justice Minister Beate Merk asked to provide the initiation of sexual contact with children via chat future criminalized. This demand was rejected by Federal Justice Minister Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger ( FDP ) with reference to the criminal liability of such acts since 2004. The federal judge Thomas Fischer and the criminal lawyer Jörg Eisele said before the third episode of the program that tightening was unnecessary. Eisele complained that the broadcast was not sufficiently legally researched.

reception

Klaus Jansen , the chairman of the Bund deutscher Kriminalbeamter , rejected criticism of the show in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung and called on the public broadcasters to include similar formats in their programs. Stefan Niggemeier criticizes the “frivolous tension” and the “hysterical-helpless level” of the show and attests to it “merely an educational effect of warning parents and children about how easy it is for pedophiles to approach minors on the Internet”.

The criticism of the audience sparked, among other things, that despite the presumption of innocence, a hunt for possibly innocent could be triggered. In fact, one of the men was identified despite being anonymized. The man's personal details and photos were published on the Internet; he and his family subsequently threatened.

The head of a children's village was dismissed after his exposure. The person concerned was thought to be missing for a week until the police announced that they knew his current whereabouts. The Caritas , his employer, criticized that neither they had been informed nor the prosecutor's office about the suspicions against him. RTL II replied that there was no criminal offense in this case and that the broadcaster was therefore not allowed to inform anyone, but later changed its approach.

The Hessian state media authority checked whether the requirements of the protection of minors were adhered to and whether personal rights were violated. The director of the Saarland State Media Authority , Gerd Bauer, criticized the format because, instead of providing information, it only satisfies the greed for sensation and there is a risk of blanket condemnation of the Internet .

The producer of the program Danuta Harrich-Zandberg confirmed reports that she and her team had received death threats . Stephanie zu Guttenberg is also threatened. In Internet magazines and blogs , the series reignited the debate about the relationship between the protection of minors and the Internet and about suitable network policy measures.

Bernd Gäbler criticized the show as “Personality-PR” on Guttenberg's between “Boobs and friend jokes of the picture , between Big Brother ” and confessions “Sex addicts on RTL2”. With statements like “Every minute on the computer makes a child a potential victim” or “The Internet is the biggest crime scene in the world”, complex facts would be condensed, but the sexual abuse of children was so horrible that nobody could contradict, just one such provocation would attract attention.

The Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger urged restraint and warned that the rule of law could get into trouble. Member of the Bundestag, Marlene Rupprecht , also spoke out as the former and designated chairwoman of the Children's Commission of the German Bundestag . She described Tatort Internet as questionable in terms of the rule of law and said the broadcast provoked criminal offenses and was prohibited.

The way in which the victims of pedosexual crimes were dealt with was also criticized. In the first episode, the fate of a 12-year-old, who had been abused by an older man, was presented in detail and reenacted in a scenic manner. The victim, who was not anonymized, found it visibly difficult to report on what had happened. Three child protection associations distanced themselves from the broadcast. This strengthens prejudices and makes no contribution to child protection.

Web links

Individual evidence

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