BERLIN – A German mother and her partner were convicted and jailed Tuesday for repeatedly raping the woman’s young son and selling him to pedophiles on the internet, abusing him for more than two years in a case that has horrified the country. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The couple's sexual exploitation case shocked Germany (faces blurred for legal reasons)

A woman who sold her son to paedophiles on the dark net has been jailed for 12 years and six months by a court in southern Germany. Ronald Wittek - Pool/Getty

The boy's mother, identified as 48-year-old Berrin T, was jailed for 12 years and six months, while her partner, 39-year-old Christian L, was jailed for 12 years. The court ruled that the man, who had a previous conviction for child sex offences, must remain in preventive custody after serving his sentence. The 48-year-old woman and 39-year-old man were accused of repeatedly abusing and raping the boy, now 10, and selling him to other men on the darknet, an area of the internet that can be visited only by using special software, for more than two years. During the trial it emerged that the couple had sexually abused the boy themselves for at least two years. The couple allowed four other men to sexually abuse the boy – among them a German soldier, a Swiss man and a Spaniard who admitted paying the couple 10,000 euros ($11,560) to rape the boy multiple times and was convicted in a separate trial Monday. In Tuesday’s verdict, the couple was ordered to pay a total 30,000 euros (US$34,650) in compensation to the boy and 12,500 euros to the girl they abused previously.
A German couple is jailed for twelve years each for selling the woman's son to a Spanish pedophile on the dark web, who repeatedly abused him. The couple themselves previously abused the boy and a three-year-old girl, whom they are ordered to pay €42,500 in compensation. The Spaniard is sentenced to ten years.