Stock Photo - 25 February 2021, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Neubrandenburg: Before the pronouncement of the verdict in the appeal trial about the violent death of six-year-old Leonie from Torgelow (Vorpommern-Greifswald), the defendant is brought into the courtroom of the Regional Court, Leonie's biological father in the back on the left. The 29-year-old stepfather had abused the girl a good two years ago to such an extent that the six-year-old died of the consequences in the family's apartment on 12 January 2019, and was sentenced to life imprisonment for it. The Federal Court of Justice had ordered a retrial after an appeal had been lodged, in which only the man's motive was to be examined more closely once again. Photo: Bernd Wüstneck/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa. - Neubrandenburg/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania/Germany