Staufen Case: Mother Rented Out Son to Abusers

Systematic Abuse and Rental of Son

Between 2015 and 2017, 37-year-old Ursula R. subjected her son, born in 2008, to severe sexual abuse in the family's apartment in the German town of Staufen im Breisgau. Together with her then-partner, 42-year-old Mario S., she committed repeated assaults against the boy, including rape, humiliation and the recording of videos of the crimes. The material was distributed via the darknet platform "BoysTown".

The particularly insidious aspect of the case was that the mother systematically rented out her son to other men. Through the darknet, she arranged meetings where at least 37 men from Germany, Austria and Switzerland sexually abused the boy. The assaults took place in the family home, while social services failed to intervene despite 30 documented warnings since 2015. Physical injuries to the child were recorded but never properly followed up.

Organized crime

Darknet Investigation Exposed the Crimes

The case came to light in April 2017 when police in Koblenz, during an investigation of the darknet platform "BoysTown", gained access to the server and secured IP addresses. One of these addresses led to Ursula R. in Staufen. On April 27, 2017, police raided the apartment and seized 2,500 files containing abuse material, including numerous videos of the boy.