Florian Teichtmeister

On 13 January 2023, 43-year-old Austrian actor Florian Teichtmeister was charged with possession of child pornography. On 5 September 2023, Teichtmeister pleaded guilty and received a two-year suspended prison sentence from the Vienna Regional Court for possessing and altering images involving the sexual abuse of children, after an investigation that began in August 2021 found that about 47,500 of the 76,000 child sexual abuse files he owned depict children under the age of 14. The court also ruled that Teichtmeister must undergo therapy and regularly submit to drug tests, facing placement in a center for mentally ill offenders if he violates these conditions. Teichtmeister accepted the verdict and refrained from appealing. A forensic psychiatrist diagnosed Teichtmeister's disorder as "severe and persistent", with his cocaine addiction, alcohol consumption, and tendency to cope with stress by viewing child pornography considered as risk factors and a high probability of relapse.