13/02/2026
“Man Without Childhood – From Victim to Offender” brings together conversations with “Bonobo,” a pedophilic offender who was held in forensic psychiatric detention for almost two decades and, as an informant, provided insights into a sealed-off parallel world: commercially organized child abuse in Europe, the trafficking of children, the production and distribution of abuse images, and the prostitution of children—processes that, according to his account, also take place in Germany and run through all social milieus.
The text shows not only perpetrator logics, but also how social ostracism and the threat of punishment increase perpetrators’ vulnerability to blackmail—and how, in “Bonobo’s” depiction, this vulnerability is exploited by ringleaders to exert influence over politics, public administration, the judiciary, and the economy. The interviews were conducted in the visitors’ room of a forensic facility, initially under relatively relaxed conditions with a camera, later under increasingly restrictive conditions up to a partition window; finally, the conversations were broken off when conflicts between the informant and the institution escalated and “Bonobo” was transferred without notice. Over everything loomed the fact that a mafia-like structure continued to control the informant and set limits even while he was in forensic detention.
Warning: The interview contains distressing content about sexualized violence against children.
Interviews with a pedophilic offender – Warning: The interview contains distressing content about sexualized violence against children – interview online