Key legal question
Whether the appellant's condition qualified as a Schwächezustand under Art. 397a ZGB
Extracted holding
Yes. The court held that he suffered from a mental illness, namely a severe psychiatric disorder with antisocial personality traits and sexual sadism.
Extracted reasoning
The psychiatric reports, treatment records, and the appellant's own statements showed persistent sadistic fantasies and a clearly abnormal, seriously disturbing behavior pattern amounting to Geisteskrankheit.