No penalty for man who filmed naked children
Published: 3 Nov 09 08:17 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23036/20091103/
A 29-year-old counselor caught secretly filming naked children at a Swedish summer camp won’t be punished for his crimes.
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But just before prosecutors brought formal charges against the 29-year-old, he managed to slip out of the country and escape to Thailand.
Since then, the man has been hiding out in the Asian paradise, ignoring repeated summons and waiting until the statute of limitations for his crime expired.
And just a few hours after the former camp counselor could no longer be charged with a crime, prosecutors had no choice but to grant his request that they return the recording equipment and computer confiscated when he was arrested.
“Obviously, you can get upset over how easy someone can have criminal suspicions against them written off,” prosecutor Eva Thunegard told the newspaper.
The man was able to leave the country so easily in part because he had a protected identity due to having been the subject of earlier threats.
According to Metro, the man currently works as a school teacher in another country.
"It’s disgraceful that it’s so easy to avoid a trial and possible conviction,” a parent of one of the children filmed by the counselor told the newspaper.
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Have the authorities in the country where he now works been told about this SOB
When he returns, he *may* or *may not* have an accident, that's all i am saying
Your statement has just made my day. Oh my goodness!
It's as if there is this quiet tolerance when it comes to child pornography and child molestation.
It says a lot on a society when there are no sufficient laws to protect it's children.
Honestly, anything short of chemical castration wouldn't be sufficient enough as rehabilitation for child molesters proven again and again to fail miserably.
Thats a bit harsh....
now, castration with a rusty fork and i'll completely support you!
What is the "the statute of limitations" in this country? two f#$king months?
A rusty fork. Good comprimise.
Seriously I have seen these f**k**s get of with this for years back in Ireland as well.
Jai does not work.
WRONG.
are they kidding ???!
Did the police gave him a chochlate or money or even a kiss as compensation??!!
Quite often, people who have children tend to react quite strongly to deplorable acts such as these.
I could seriously not gauge what my reaction would be if my child were victim of one of these predators. I expect that it would not be pretty.
You are obviously eneducated, immature and insensitive- how can you make a joke about this? Shame on you!
A Saudi court has ruled that a man convicted of raping five children will be beheaded and crucified.
Muhammad Basheer al-Ramaly, 22, left his youngest victim, aged three, stranded in the desert to die.
He was caught when he tried to abduct another boy by offering him a lift home from school in his car.
I wouldn't be so quick to hold up Saudi law as a model. Those people chop your hands off for stealing and stone women to death for showing an ankle. Hell, they'll kill a woman in that country for about any minor 'offence.' Want to get an education, chicky? Too bad, so sad... rock to the head.
The pedophile should be punished, but it should be done in a 'civilized' manner.