School head on rape claim: 'boys will be boys'
Published: 14 Nov 11 13:54 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/37340/20111114/
A high school in Täby in northern Stockholm has been reported to the Equality Ombudsman over allegations that the principal played down rape allegations as "stuff that boys do".
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The student reported the school to the Schools Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen), which has now forwarded the complaint to the Equality Ombudsmannen (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen - DO).
According to the complaint filed with the Schools Inspectorate, the student was told by the principal:
"You file a police report if you want, although this is not a prioritized case as no serious crime has been committed."
The principal then told the student, who was accompanied by another member of staff at the time:
"Guys do this kind of thing, you have to get used to it."
According to the report, when the girl's mother called the principal to discuss her comments, the principal told her that her daughter "should concentrate on her studies" and "to stop focusing on these trivialities".
The girl eventually stopped attending school as she felt she had not received support from the teachers or the principal despite having filed a police report alleging rape and attempted rape in March 2011.
The girl alleges that from that time until the break for the summer holidays, she was subjected to periodical harassment from fellow students and some individual teachers at the school.
The girl has now changed to another school in the county.
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In that case, the head anounced to the newspapers that the two student rapists had been going through a very stressful time, what with the school moving between buildings and all that.
I guess Sweden should have a look on its laws and definitions of rape, otherwise soon all the girls will be crying "rape" and we all know what happened to the guy that "cried wolf"...
hope am not raping this site
There's also a whole lot wrong with this report. Not the down-playing of the rape by the staff but the chronology The Local has presented doesn't add up. How many times was the girl raped? In February and in March? Or just once? Or was it alleged in February and attempted in March? But as we know from past experience The Local's reporting of such crimes has been haphazard at best.
the message we send out is that it's not wrong or forbidden to do so but that it's the women's job not to get raped.
A rough translation of Brottsbalken 6 kap. 1 § would read:
A person who by assault or in other ways by violence or by threat of a criminal act forces a person to intercourse or to do or bear other sexual acts which with regard to the kind and circumstances of the violation is comparable with intercourse is sentenced to prison for a minimum of two years and a maximum of six years.
The same applies to a person who has intercourse with or subjects another to a sexual act which according to the first section is comparable to intercourse by taking advantage of the person being rendered helpless by unconsciousness, sleep, intoxication or other drug-related state, illness, physical or mental handicap, or other circumstances.
If the crime is, with regards to the circumstances, to be considered less violent the perpetrator is sentenced to prison sentence for a maximum of four years.
If the crime in the first section is considered violent rape the perpetrator is sentenced to a prison sentence of a minimum of four years and a maximum of ten years. In order to classify the crime as violent the character of the force and threat is especially to be considered and if there were multiple perpetrators or if the perpetrator in any other way showed extreme cruelty.
I've been through this myself, in a swedish school. People almost never takes these things serious and it isn't strange that men and women doesn't trust society to help them.
When something serious DOES happen, its much easier to pretend it didn't, rather than disturb one's comfy little existence and actually do something about it
We don't. Specifically, we don't know what the girl alleged happened, and we don't know if what she said took place would meet most people's definition of "rape" or not.
It could be that she told the principal that she had been raped when she had not, and when the principal heard exactly what had happened, she was told, in effect, "Don't be silly. That's not rape."
The Swedish school system sux!
Does that mean the principal is a woman?