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German Man Charged With Travel to NY with Husband to Have Sex Has Report Delayed

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 9  – German national Thomas Alexander Brandenstein was arrested for enticing a minor into sex.

He was presented on October 2, 2023 before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Stuart D. Aaron. Inner City Press was there, the only media in the SDNY Mag Court.  

The Federal Defender argued that the three NYS statutes cited were "class E" felonies that required the use of force or compulsion, not just "emotional compulsion." She argued that sex with a 15 year old in not illegal in Germany. 

 The prosecutor noted the Brandstein and his husband traveled to New York specifically to have sex in a hotel with this 15 year old, and that he wanted to bailed out to a hotel. She also noted that law enforcement now has the defendant's phone and may charge "production."

  Judge Aaron took a break with pre-trial services, then returned and ordered detention. The husband / co-defendant remained at large. 

On March 4, 2024, the case was indicted as to both defendants and assigned to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.

On September 9, Federal Defenders wrote in that Brandenstein's mitigation report is running late, now due September 16 - and so proposing that a September 11 conference be cancelled. They add that Brandstein in the MDC is enrolled in an in-person course through Columbia University on Wednesdays, that he does not want to miss.

The case is US v. Brandenstein, et al., 24-cr-121 (Kaplan).

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