Published: 24 Oct 11 12:19 CET | Print version
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A man and two 16-year-old boys were charged on Friday for the rape of a girl in her lower teens. According to the charge sheet, the man paid the boys to rape the girl and film the incident.
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Truly evil, time for the death penalty.
We don't know what relationship exists between the man and the girl, or the boys and the girl. A 34-year old and under-15 girl could be father and daughter, in which case her presence in the apartment is explained simply, or the relationship could be uncle and niece, again her presence in the apartment is explainable. Not that either of those relationships give permission for the man to pay for and film the girl's rapes.
The man may have "groomed" the girl over a period of time. Sadly incidents similar to this happened in England some time ago. Older men grooming pre-teen girls for multiple rape and prostitution. If there were two widely separate events then the girl's return to a place where she had been abused once is strange ... but the inducements of the groomer may have over come any caution she should have exhibited.
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Hope you are not sick in your brain? What has immigrants have to do with this? Do you want people to starting telling you how shallow your reasoning is? Better don't start or else you will hear the story of your life....
You sound like the English politician Ken Clark who recently tried to distinquish different levels of rape with some less serious than others. Let's get real here the girl was raped. Who cares whether it was "staturory" or "forcible". She was violated while cameras were pointed at her.
In the same sentence where Sweden's age of consent is mentioned, the victims(?)/suspects are still referred to as boys. I am all for raising the age of consent in Sweden, but until then, stop calling them boys.
Yes, indeed. Each country allows a couple legitimately to try to start a family at some arbitrary age: 15 in the case of Sweden, 16 in the case of England; 14 in the case of Romania, other countries have different ages of consent. But then these countries have higher age limits for what the English used to describe with the quaint phrase "reaching the age of majority". Once mature the citizen can then be given the vote, called up for military service, accept responsibilities for their own debts, get a job, and various other legal issues but this can be 2, 3, or 4 years after they have become a parent. The whole system needs to be overhauled such that the right to parenthood is accompanied with the right to vote, to being on the front-line, etc. Only then will we have no confusion between children under the age of consent and adults over that age. A Swede under 15: a boy or a girl; over 15: a man or woman.