Unmöglich, so wurde argumentiert, dass solch rosige, runde Jungen jemals diesem auszehrenden Laster gefrönt haben sollen.
Während einige Journalisten dem einflussreichen Vater folgten, der die sexuelle Unbescholtenheit seiner Familie gegen den Angeklagten in Stellung brachte, sahen andere in den Eltern typische Repräsentanten der dekadenten, verantwortungslosen Oberschicht und stilisierten das Verbrechen zum Symptom des allgemeinen gesellschaftlichen Niedergangs.
Der Prozess wurde zum Aufhänger für die unterschiedlichsten Polemiken, an die wiederum Rechts- und Humanwissenschaften anknüpften.
www.litrix.deIt was inconceivable, people argued, that such chubby, rosy-cheeked boys could ever have succumbed to this debilitating vice.
While some journalists followed the example of the influential father in defending the sexual purity of his family, others condemned the parents as typical representatives of the irresponsible and decadent upper classes and pigeon-holed the crime as a symptom of general social degeneration.
The trial became a peg on which to hang a wide variety of polemics that were connected in their turn to current debates in the legal and human sciences.
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