Austria Dominatrix in court after deadly sex game claims a life


Source: Thelocal.at.


AUSTRIA – A prostitute is on trial in Vienna, accused of causing intentional serious bodily harm resulting in death after a 45-year-old client of hers was found hanging in a hotel room after a BDSM session.

The 29-year-old woman’s lawyer, Martin Mahrer, says that his client never had any intention to put the man in danger, and that she did not cause him to die.

The woman is a trained hairdresser who began working as a dominatrix in March 2015 when she was short of money. She advertised her services on the Internet, in BDSM (bondage and discipline, submission and masochism) forums, and offered choking and “slave training”. Mahrer said the victim put himself into the noose, became unconscious and then died.

The man approached the dominatrix in September last year, and in a series of meetings discussed with her what he wanted to do. The prosecution says that he wanted to experiment with “breath-play”, and experience falling unconscious.

He rented a hotel room on the night of September 12th and attached a climbing rope to a clothes rail and wall bracket, with which he prepared a noose.

He told the woman that he would put the noose around his neck and pull it tight and that she should put a shoelace around his neck and pull that tight. Previously, he had handed her a letter in which he stated that he accepted “full responsibility for all risks and any resulting injury to his health”, and that he was aware that his fetish could lead to death.

On this occasion he didn’t become unconscious because, as he later wrote the women in a WhatsApp message, he was distracted by her beauty. They agreed to meet the following night and try again.

This time he also wrapped brown parcel tape around his head and mouth, before putting his head into the noose. The prostitute knotted the shoelace as firmly as she could and pulled hard – according to the prosecutor. However, her lawyer maintains that the shoelace was never too tight and that it was more elastic than the climbing rope.

According to the defendant, the man put his whole body weight into the noose so that his knees came off the ground. He lost consciousness and the woman let go off the shoelace, but did not remove it from his neck, and left the hotel room.

She claims that after an hour and a half she began to feel uneasy and sent the man an SMS, asking if everything was OK. When he didn’t answer she went back to the hotel and knocked on the door. When he didn’t open the door she went to the reception, where she claims she was told “if he is dead, we’ll find out tomorrow”.

She then went to a police station and told them what had happened. Police officers opened the door to the hotel room shortly after midnight and discovered the man’s lifeless body.

In his autopsy report the coroner said that the man died because of a lack of oxygen to the brain due to strangulation, and that death would have occurred even without the noose as the shoelace was so tightly knotted. If the woman is found guilty she faces between five and 15 years in prison.

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