February 4, 2012
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A 20 year-old man with HIV from Linköping has been remanded in custody for having unprotected sex with a 15-year-old girl.
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Well, what do you expect from the land of the breast feeding men.
It's a difficult case... he seems to be a compulsive liar. Or he only lies when drunk. He did admit his crime later though knowing he would be sentenced for it. So it's not like he's the devil. Plus he's young and he himself has HIV, which is very sad.
Since he seems to feel regret hopefully he'll ask to be chemically castrated himself since it's a bit of a tough call for a court to make. It would be a good option for him though especially considering the fact that he doesn't have a long life ahead of him. Instead of jail he should choose the castration, plain and simple.
It seems to me that our "jail as a punishment" does not work in all cases. The guy went to jail once for this crime, and has already re offended. Jail time does mean the problem gets solved, and in the MAJORITY of cases it gets worse.
I'm all for sending this guy to Rwanda or similar to be vorced to give help to people there who have are born with AIDS. Send him there for life. Surely that is better than paying for him to be sheltered in a cell, feed three good meals a day, with gym, education and internet freely available.
MAKE THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME!
He had sex with a 15 year old girl.
He is trying to kill women and is obviously a paedohile.
He needs to be put in jail as it is not safe to allow him on the streets.
If any of these women gets HIV from him. He needs to be tried for murder.
Alcohol is no excuse. How many woman have heard there husbands say they beat them up because they were drunk and it won't happen again. He intended to do this.
AIDS is a slow lingering, very painful death. This is a calculated act by a murderer who by rights, should have the same inflicted upon him.
Make no mistake, he intends to kill these women. That is his intent.
For the public good, after his prison sentence, you lock him up in a SECURE medical physicality! You make him comfortable there until he is either dead or there is a cure for his disease!
The PUBLIC must be protected! His rights DO NOT supersede the PUBLIC'S rights!
Chemically castrated only works while you take the drug!
A LARGE tattoo in the middle of his forehead sounds good!!
Murder is murder. Whether you do it in a few seconds or take 10 years...
I still think sending him to work at an hospital that cares for AIDS and HIV patients is the best solution. Why not make him work for the public rather than setting him up in a 1 star hotel?
The guy should have his thing cut off.... and perhaps a little restraint from girls keeping their legs closed too, although I don't restrict that comment to one particular country.
In the US anyone HIV positive having unprotected sex with a partner is charged with attempted murder and goes to jail for 15 yrs to life for each case.
This guy was let out after only 16 months of so.
This poor kid 15 is a kid, when I talk to swedes and other europeans they think 15 is fine and old enough. Being 20 someone who is 15 isnt that much younger but it is wrong, even just those 5 yrs is leaps and bounds in terms of maturity.
The age of consent should be raised around the world to 18.
Plus Sweden needs to keep murderers in jail for life. Now the girl will have to sweat it out for 3 months. The Swedish health board should advertize this to all the high schoolers out there.
By the way why arent they using a condom, i dont care if you are drunk, I wouldnt want to cath any STD's. Obviously the guy wanted to pass on his death sentence.
and he is a rapist too (had sex with a 15yr old)??? Where is the lynchies saying its a muslim
You guys are idiots
But on a more serious note
the public should be informed about this man. There is a website in the states for instance which registers sex offenders..and when a sex offender moves into a new neighbourhood..he MUST inform his neighbours that he is a sex offender....that could be a good way of dealing with it
and also too...a highly generalized comment about Sweden as a society...these people DONT USE CONDOMS.....seriously (yup..have first hand experience...a Swedish guy I was about to do the deed with for the first time couldnt get it up because I insisted that he wear..GASP...a condom..looked at me like an alien/..really funny)
USE A CONDOM
USE A CONDOM
it aint too hard
Sweden won't publish names, or pictures of the accused, because that's exactly how to screw up justice and fairness under the law. In my time I can only recall pictures being published once, with names and ages attached, in the mid 1990s, of Neo-Nazis. It was extremely controversial.
Swedes are less apt to wear condoms than perhaps they ought to, although HIV is also much less common than compared even to other European countries. That said there are in fact laws on the books to remand into custody someone who engages in unprotected sex when they are aware that they pose a risk. These laws are actually something Sweden gets dinged for in the international community because it raises a spectre of the past that is uncomfortable in many countries that have much greater individualistic tendencies. The law is under Smittskyddslagen, and perhaps may be applied in this case.
"Erwin Mahnke" sounds kinda foreign to me... I mean w doesn't even belong in the Swedish alphabet, except as the first letter in proper names.
Bullshit. There are a number of cases winding their way through the courts but there is neither a federal law nor a consensus among the states or the population as to how to address this legislatively nor is there some automatic prosecution. Your knowledge of American jurisprudence is clearly minimal.
I understand the point of copp3rred ,,,Sweden does indeed have a different way of doing things which is to be respected...and it does sound kinda torchy...mobbish...blah blah when ppl comment that his forhead be tattoed or chemical castration etc
What I dont like is the comparison to Iran...unneccessary...and borderline racist...what does Iran have to do with this discussion is beyond me..phew (this is the systematic mainstreaming of these little racist comments that Im wary of...needs ot stop)
and in this current legal framework I feel as if the rights of the criminal is given more respect than the rights of the victim.
Someone tried to kill someone...thats what intentionally having unprotected sex when you are HIV positive is...thats attempted murder.
one year will not suffice...cannot suffice...mater of fact..should he really be in jail?well in a conventional jail? he needs some kind of psychiatric evaluation and help...
and if he really insists on having unprotected sex when he is in the public..Im sorry...but he needs ot be stopped...do you have any ideas of how to stop him from infecting innocent victims?