Couple who abused boy imprisoned

A German mother and her partner have been convicted over the repeated rape of the woman’s young son and for selling him for sex on the internet.

They were sentenced to prison in a case that has horrified the country.

Freiburg state court sentenced the woman, who has been identified only as Berrin T. in line with German privacy rules, to 12 and a half years in prison for rape, sexual abuse and forced prostitution. Her partner, Christian L., was sentenced to 12 years.

The woman. 48 and man, 39, repeatedly abused and raped the boy, now ten years old, and sold him to other men on the dark net.