Published: 2 Oct 09 13:04 CET | Print version
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Three boys aged 12-13-years-old are suspected of having raped a 10-year-old girl at a school in Linköping in central Sweden.
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Since this happened in sweden, the police is not gonna interview the kids as the kids might be in STRESS during the interview, although they have already raped but the stress from the interview might damage their character.
But after all this they will be knowing for sure that they have 5 more years to rape before being interviewed by police.
These kids are under 15 so they won't be held accountable for rape!?! If they're able to do the crime, they should be able to pay for the crime. There's no way they can give back what they took away from that little 10 years old girl.
What are these 12-13 boys thinking!?! How can they even think of rape? There must be something seriously wrong with these boys. Sweden needs to wake up and treat rape as a much more serious crime. It's like the stone age or something here where men are allowed to just grab a chick by her hair and do what they please.
http://europenews.dk/en/node/25872
are you kidding me?
no juvenile hall?
In teh states the boys would atleast serve in juvi and then probably get sent to an adult prison.
If I were that little girl's father HELLFIRE would REIGN down on the 3 boys and their parents for the stand-up jobs they did in raising them. There would be nothing left of any of their lineage.
"In teh states the boys would atleast serve in juvi and then probably get sent to an adult prison."
And that works so well in the states.
time that Amnesty international should put there foot down with sweden and their pathetic laws !!
Rape has gone down a lot over the years in the states. Rapists get on average 7 to 10 yrs depending on the circumstances, if it were up to me they would get life in prison if not execution.
For a country that claims the sexes are completely equal having such a male bias when it comes to rape is a very noticeable flaw Sweden should try to remedy. (I know rapes can go either way, but it is usually a male raping a female)
Those boys belong in institutional care. Rape is rape. At that age something is seriously wrong. Everything from upbringing, through peers and education needs to be looked at, with a microscope.
This is seriously screwed up.
Also, there needs to be consequences for these two boys, severe consequences. Who cares if they are "stressed" while being interviewed? These boys knew what they were doing. If they are allowed to get away with it, they essentially are being given permission to treat women like this for the rest of their lives. What about the girl? She had the guts to report it and nobody cares about her rights?
The one thing that kept me from living in Sweden permanently is the passive attitude about so many things, this is a perfect example. It's a new day. What will it take in Sweden before you realize that kids are one of your most precious resources and that more needs to be done both for the victims and for kids like these boys? Stop being so accepting and passive about these kinds of behaviors. Otherwise one day you'll be run over by them and you won't know what hit you.
Apparently my country (the US) does not have a monopoly on judicial inanity.
Do you think it might ultimately occur to the law-makers here in Sweden that this culture and society has been inspired in every conceivable way to think about sex, watch sex, read about sex, dress sexy and look at sensuous pictures? After all, we are sexual beings, right?
Then if that's not enough, the children can be taught about sex in the public school system....in a vulgar, sick and pornographic manner that has almost nothing to do with learning ABOUT sex, but rather has everything to do with HOW-TO perform sex - Pathetic bisexual RFSU instruction tutors do everything but masturbate the children themselves!
Maybe the reason rape can't have any serious consequences for the perpetrator is because the lawmakers - being lascivious themselves - feel a sense of responsibility for having facilitated the crimes?