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Violent criminals live in their immediate neighborhood ...
How hard must it be to fear the lives of his children. And not knowing how it turns out.
Parents would not want to lose sight of their children for a second. Running after the big one when she rides a bike to a friend. And standing very close to the little one when she sits on the swing shouting. But it does not work. Children need this space to grow. Even though the fear for her is so great that one can not breathe anymore. Because the evil lives in the neighborhood!
So what can currently happen only in Stephanie (35) and Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (41) ? How big is the fear of her daughters Anna (11) and Mathilda (10)? Because in the actually so idyllic place Greenwich, Connecticut (USA), where the family lives since 2010, the nightmare of all parents has come true: In their immediate neighborhood live three violent men who have passed on women and children! Men who abused without scruple, raped and sat in prison for many years!
Today they are free and do not even live five kilometers from the front door of the Guttenberg family ...
It is to despair, certainly very special for Stephanie zu Guttenberg . She, who has been campaigning against child abuse in Germany for seven years, can do nothing to protect her daughters. Except to warn her. "Even small children need to be educated, " she says. "You have to learn to say no. You have to teach them that your own body belongs to them. "
Anna and Mathilda know all this. But does it also protect them from the criminals who are currently living only a stone's throw away? Hardly likely. And that's how the fear stays. Every day, every minute, every second.
There is only one way out: the return to Germany . Back to the place where the children are safe, to Guttenberg (Upper Franconia). Here stands the castle of the family. And this is not where serious criminals and child molesters live in the immediate vicinity.
A walk to the village, a bicycle ride to school, an afternoon at the playground - all safe. Only about 600 people live in the village, everyone knows everyone. Yes, here Anna and Mathilda could grow up unmolested. And that would make a dream come true for Stephanie zu Guttenberg: "I wish that I succeed in educating my daughters to become independent people with a strong backbone."
But that only works if you can let go of the children without fear and worry.
