A man has taken at the Boxhagener Platz in Berlin, a little girl from a Playground. A young mother watched the scene on 18. June has played. The man had approached the girl first. As he walked away with him, asked the observer, a kiosk operator for help. Because the woman, which itself is a two-year-old child had not realized that something was wrong.

the owner of The stall went after the man filmed him and brought back the child finally together with the man to the Playground, where the missing girl was searched.

a child Playing suddenly disappears, is a horror show for parents and relatives. Lucky in this case: There was attentive and courageous fellow, and could possibly prevent the worst from happening. This is not always so.

“You must calm his gut feeling to trust”

“I wish me a total of more attention,” says Michael Schulte-Markwort, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in an interview with FOCUS Online.

Secure notes on the part of a child go with a person who is not a relative or another trusted person of the child, not the clinic Director, according to indeed. “But you must not give in to his belly, feeling calm,” says the Director of the Hospital in Berlin happen.

“When I see a Person with a child from the Playground and I have a feeling this is not the own father, for example, then it is the most Natural, immediately this Person to address,” says Schulte-Markwort. If the talk then you should ask the child yourself.

to film someone in such a case, or to photograph, as it happened in Berlin, keeps the psychiatrist for a possible approach. Because of this it is for the Person who may be committing an injustice, immediately threatening.

the child psychiatrist asks you to be attentive.

Fortunately, this Form of criminal Offence in Germany, but rarely. Much more often, it has come to violence in the immediate environment of children. Schulte-Markwort see quite Often cases in which children, abnormalities are seen, but no one dares to address this. Even if people suspected their neighbors, to beat his child, because she heard the screams, but they did not interfere a lot better.

there are mainly for violence against children is often clear indications. The children change. This may speak to the child psychiatrist that is quite different: you can be scared, or overly aggressive act. In particular, physical characteristics, such as blue spots on the back, the Butt or grip pattern on the upper arms should make an observer suspicious.

“I have the feeling that in Germany we have a culture of non-interference,” says Michael Schulte-Markwort and encourages to be more attentive.

On 18. June in Berlin, the people were attentive and so may prevent the situation from worsening. Against the suspicious man is now determined due to the abduction of minors, as the police said on request by FOCUS Online. The requirements for a warrant were not available at the time of the arrest, so that the man on the evening of the 18th. June came again on free foot. There is no escape was in danger. The responsible LKA 124 (offences against children) suspected in the case of offenders with a mental disorder, a pedophilic inclination is not to see. According to officials, the man was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the murder.

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