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Women used ‘rape drug’ to rob men

Two female robbers who knocked their victims out with a date rape drug have been sentenced to five and four years in prison by Vienna’s Criminal Court.

A 25-year-old woman and her 37-year-old accomplice cruised bars to pick up men, drugged them with a powerful sedative, and then stole their valuables.

They had been robbing men in Vienna since 2012. They preyed on men who had had too much to drink and appeared to have a large sum of money with them.

They lured their victims away from bars with the promise of sex, went back to their homes with them, and slipped the date rape drug into their drink. Once their victim had passed out they took valuables such as laptops, mobile phones, jewellery and cash.

The younger woman was identified as the main culprit, and was found guilty of carrying out six robberies. Her older accomplice, the sister of her partner, was found guilty of four robberies.

In a few of the robberies the women picked up men in betting shops, where they were playing arcade games. They would buy the man a drink and then invite him to have sex in the toilet – where they would steal his cash as soon as his trousers were down.

In one case a young man was robbed of €1,000 in this way. “By the time I realized what was happening my wallet was gone and so was the woman,” one victim said.

Both women grew up in poverty in Slovakia, and said that their sole motivation for the crimes was to make money. 

"I don’t have a job so I tried to make money as a prostitute," the 25-year-old told the judge. However, as her clients would only pay her €20 or €30 for sex, she came up with the idea of drugging them and then taking their money.

The women were arrested after their DNA was found on cigarettes and glasses in the mens' apartments. In one case, one of the women even left her shoes behind.

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Austria investigates 17 teens for alleged sexual abuse of girl

Austrian authorities on Friday said they were investigating 17 teenagers - including 12 minors - over the alleged months-long sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl in Vienna last year.

Austria investigates 17 teens for alleged sexual abuse of girl

The alleged offences took place in a disadvantaged area of the capital’s south “between February and June 2023, in toilets, garages, a hotel and in the perpetrators’ homes”, Florian Finda, deputy director of the Vienna police, told a news conference.

The suspects in the rare case – most of whom are aged between 14 and 18 – are of Bulgarian, Italian, Serbian, Syrian and Turkish origin.

Two of them are under 14 and therefore below Austria’s age of criminal responsibility.

The suspects – almost all of whom were known to police for other offences – are accused of serious sexual abuse of a minor, including the pornographic depiction of the abuse of a minor.

Thirteen suspects were questioned on Thursday, with some of them partially denying the allegations.

The suspects and the Austrian victim met through one of the accused, with whom the then 12-year-old is said to have made out with.

She was then introduced to the rest of the group.

The boys allegedly exchanged videos and photos of the abuse via social networks including WhatsApp chats, with one of them allegedly threatening to share the pornographic material.

According to the police, none of the material was made available to the wider public.

In October, the young girl, now 13, informed her mother, who subsequently filed a complaint.

The ongoing investigation is due to be transferred to the public prosecutor’s office.

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