mentally defective in English
mentally deficient, mentally handicapped
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1. Out of a total of 306 legal charges against sex offenders accused of child sexual abuse (CSA: n = 145), rape or sexual assault (n = 89), exhibitionism (n = 39), sexual abuse of adolescents, mentally defective, physically helpless or warded persons (n = 18) that were admitted by a criminal court in 2001 in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, 209 (95.6 %) were analyzed regarding the following questions: how often was the accused examined by a mental health professional regarding mental responsibility?