Swedish teen reported to police for 'face rape'
Published: 28 May 12 08:22 CET | Print version
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A 15-year-old boy from Norrköping in eastern Sweden has been reported to police for allegedly "face raping" another teen by writing false messages on the latter's Facebook page, an increasingly common phenomenon among young Swedes.
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"A huge number of our young people have been victims of this, but many probably don't realize that they can report it," Anders Ahlqvist, an IT-expert with the National Police Board (Rikspolisstyrelsen), told the TT news agency.
"Face rape" can be seen as another name for computer hacking, a crime which is punishable by fines or up to two years in prison.
And it's a very common crime.
According to a report released last year by the Swedish Data Protection Board (Datainspektionen), around half of young Swedish Facebook users have had their accounts hacked by someone who then has written mocking or insulting remarks in the victim's name.
"There are probably a huge number of unreported cases. Some may be ashamed, as some of the things people write aren't so pleasant so they may just want to keep quiet about it," Göran Eriksson, an investigator with police in Norrköping, told TT.
Another reason why young victims of "face rape" don't report the crime to police may have to do with their attitudes toward the internet and the fact that neither the perpetrators nor the victims understand that "face rape" is a criminal act.
"Many have a hard time understanding that the same rules apply on the internet that apply in real life. Language is used differently online than what you would hear in the schoolyard, for example," said Ahlqvist.
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I came here ready to suggest the use of "teeth" against "face rape", and it turns out this is a stupid article about facebook hacking...
As @heu says, it isn't about hacking at all. You generally have access to their PC because they don't lock it when stepping away from the computer. It is usually done between friends and you all have a laugh about it. That is why people don't tend to report it.
and second just delete what other kids wrote and its solved.
this kind of stuff is just stupid, rape is a serious crime, saying someone writing on your facebook is rape already diminishes the seriousness of it.
This also shows how weird swedish law is, that a child molestor gets just as much time as someone that wrote silly things on someones facebook.
Maybe it is time to stop using 'soft' words like "face rape" to conceal the ugliness.
This should be called libel, slander, and defamation because it is criminal.