00:00Of course, it happened to me something terrible.
00:01We have a German right, and that has holes.
00:05And my case fits into this hole.
00:07And that's why I fight in our German state for the novellation of the law of sexual crime.
00:15Claudia Wutke's story begins in 2025, she says, but her case stretches back long before then.
00:23Last year, she was informed by police of screenshots taken from footage showing a clearly incapacitated
00:29woman being forced into sex acts.
00:31It was her.
00:32Similarities have been made to the case of Giselle Pellicot.
00:36Insofern, I am very grateful for her, but I don't want to be compared with her.
00:40Police told Wutke they'd found 67 videos, allegedly filmed over a 16-year period by her ex-partner.
00:47The statute of limitations has run out on all but two of those recordings.
00:52Only those cases can be prosecuted.
01:13In Germany, the five-year statute of limitations on rape can be extended if there are aggravating factors.
01:20That includes situations where the victim is incapacitated, but only if that can be proven beyond reasonable doubt.
01:27Claudia Wutke says she is convinced she was drugged, but cannot prove it.
01:32It could no one of these cases.
01:34I didn't, because I wasn't aware of it.
01:37I couldn't prove it.
01:37I couldn't prove it.
01:39The government is planning to discuss potential changes to the legislation around sexual assault cases later this year.
01:45For us, it's important that it's just a court-righteous regulation.
01:49Because we know that it should also be in the interest of one of these regulations.
01:56But any reform now may come too late for Claudia Wutkes case.
02:01Wieso hat man nicht auch sozusagen ein rechtliches Instrumentarium zu sagen, die Vergewaltigung
02:08oder die Straftat fängt dann an zu verjähren, wenn sie bekannt wird?
02:11In meinem Fall war sie einfach nicht bekannt.
02:13As she waits to go to trial, she's decided to go public and start an awareness campaign.
02:18Ungebrochen.
02:19In English undeterred.
02:21Was ich gebraucht hätte, wäre eine Community, ein Austausch mit Frauen, die Ähnliches erlebt
02:28haben und nicht damit wir schimpfen und meckern und wie schlimm alles ist, sondern um uns
02:33gegenseitig zu bestärken, wie toll wir das schaffen und wie wir uns immer wieder aufrichten.
02:38We are angry, we are disappointed in this system.
02:41Wir brauchen konsequente Veränderungen sowohl in der Politik, sowohl im Gesetz und sowohl in
02:46der Gesellschaft.
02:46Und natürlich ist mein Leben heute nicht mehr das, was es für einen Jammer war, das ist völlig
02:49klar.
02:50Also ich komme ganz stark in meinem eigenen Wertungsprozess von der Selbstentwertung in die Selbstermächtigung
02:56und das ist ein innerer Prozess des inneren Wachstums.
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