Court case Bonn taxi driver accused of raping passenger
Bonn · A 39-year-old taxi driver is accused of raping a 50-year-old woman last September. The public prosecutor’s office is charging the father-of-four.
A taxi driver is accused of threatening a 50-year-old woman that he would kill her lapdog and of raping her consequently. Now the public prosecutor’s office has charged the father-of-four. Soon the 39-year-old accused will have to explain himself in front of the Bonn district court, as spokesperson Tobias Gülich said.
According to the charges, the woman had visited her boyfriend in Kessenich and got into the taxi of the 39-year-old at around 10pm to be driven home in the north of the city. After a stop at a filling station where the woman purchased drinks, he is said to have threatened her: „If you don’t want something happening to your dog, you’ll do as you’re told.“ According to the charges the dog of the 50-year-old was not the kind of dog that would be able to defend its owner.
Taxi driver denies all charges
At a supermarket the 39-year-old stopped again and ordered her to buy condoms. He underlined his request by repeating his threat that he would harm the dog. So she obeyed.
Afterwards the accused is said to have driven to a parking lot near the Römerbad and demanded her to take off her trousers. When she cried and refused, he threatened her again and forced her to perform oral sex.
He drove her home afterwards. The 50-year-old ran into her appartment and called the police. The 39-year-old was located the same night and arrested.
The family father not only denies the accusations but claims it was the other way round, according to the investigators’ report. In truth, the woman hassled him and made insinuating comments, clearly demanding sex, which did not happen.
The public prosecutor’s office is convinced though that the 50-year-old is speaking the truth, particularly as the indications were according to her report of events.
(Original text: Rita Klein / Translation: Mareike Graepel)
