A four-year-old boy has allegedly been raped by an Afghan man in toilets at a shelter for asylum seekers in Germany.
The Iraqi refugee was living with his family alongside 600 other migrants at the centre in Boostedt, north of Hamburg, when he was reportedly assaulted.
The youngster’s father is said to have found his son and a man with their trousers round their ankles, the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag newspaper reported.
The man had been searching for his child after the boy’s eight-year-old brother spotted his younger sibling in the toilet with a stranger, Kiel District Court heard.
Their father told the court he asked the man what he was doing with the boy, and was told he had been helping him go to the toilet.
The four-year-old later told his parents he had been forced to perform oral sex on the man – a claim allegedly backed-up by DNA evidence.
The 22-year-old suspect denies carrying out the attack.
A second Afghan man, 29, denies threatening the victim’s brother with a knife when he tried to stop the assault.
The trial continues.
