In seven cases, obtained from the autopsy material of two German institutes of forensic medicine (Hamburg and Berlin-East) the circumstances of manshlaughter committed by youth versus children are presented. There is a tendency of sexual background in such an offender-victim-constellation. The cause of death was strangulation in most cases; the perpetrators intended to conceal the sexual misuse.
Such cases are very rare; epidemological conclusions concerning escalating violence of the youth cannot be drawn.