Questão jurídica principal
Whether the complaint against the amount of moral damages and referral of the excess to civil proceedings was admissible and well-founded.
Decisão extraída
The complaint was admissible only within the limits of the challenged reasoning, but it was unfounded: the award of CHF 5,000 and referral of the excess were lawful.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that the victim's pre-existing psychiatric condition made a full determination of the psychological damage and any effect on the daughter medically complex. Since the extent of the attack's psychological consequences and any pre-disposition could not be determined without further medical inquiry, the appellate court could limit itself to ruling on the claim in principle and refer the remaining amount to civil proceedings.