Stockholm newspaper carrier guilty of rape
Published: 25 Jun 12 10:08 CET | Print version
Updated: 25 Jun 12 21:08 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/41630/20120625/
A newspaper delivery man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl he met while out on his morning rounds in Stockholm has been convicted of rape by a court of appeal.
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The 31-year-old newspaper carrier ran into the girl while out delivering papers on the Stockholm island of Södermalm on the morning of July 31st, 2011, the Metro newspaper reported.
According to the girl's account of the incident, she had gone out for a cigarette when the man began showering her with an unprompted litany of compliments.
Suddenly, the 31-year-old started kissing her and then forced her into a back garden where he proceeded to sexually assault the girl.
After the girl reported the incident to police, the mail carrier was subsequently charged with rape.
The 31-year-old later claimed the girl had bee hitting on him, resulting in nothing more than a kiss.
He explained the semen recovered from the girl's clothes by saying he ejaculated prematurely.
The man was initially acquitted following his district court trial due to doubts about the credibility of the victim's testimony.
According to the original indictment, the girl was under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident and was therefore considered to be in a helpless state.
Prosecutors and the girl's lawyer appealed the ruling to the Svea Court of Appeal, which overturned the lower court's verdict and convicted the 31-year-old delivery man of rape.
He was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay 91,800 kronor ($12,970) in compensation to the victim.
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Its NOT a postman, its a Newspaper delivery man!
Its totally different things.
Postman works during working hours.
Disgusting that thelocal doesnt check the authenticity of the news before attempting to tarnish the image of companies.
Posten has strict guidelines and behaviour training and any such offenders dont usually become part of the workforce.
Wow. Shocker....In other news, the sky is blue.
Atrocities happen regardless of skin color or country of origin. Yes, this person is likely not a good person, but to attribute it to an entire class of people is ridiculous.
But you know what? Go ahead. Blame it all on them. Hell, why not take a gun and shoot them all down... shoot them like that immigrant who shot all those Norwegians on that island. (Rumor has it that the killer was from Burundi.)
Yes, funny how an entire class of people seems to be behind a staggeringly disproportionate amount of the crime and rapes in Sweden and Europe in general with concrete statistics to support it.
Acknowledging this means we're all serial killers.
Excellent logic.
You ever move from home due to a war? Or political strife? You ever been forced to find refuge where you are a strange, if not unwelcomed minority?
Perhaps there is more to it than simply being dark skinned or Muslim. Perhaps it's an effect of being disenfranchised, of being absurdly poor without means of improvement, of being integrated into a system where there is already disdain and prejudice.
Ahh, but you wouldn't understand that. Lucky you. Lucky me... I only had to witness my parents go through it.
So now you're changing from "we're wrong", to making excuses for the perpetrators... Once again, impressive logic.
Yes, poor disenfranchised mentally disturbed people from the horrible hellholes of the world who've been taught to subjugate women and accept violence as the norm are (unfortunately) more likely to commit crimes and rape our women.
Whether we should be inviting more of said people in to our neighborhoods to put ourselves at further risk is the REAL question.
Thanks for making the point for us.
@haladeen,
And yet here you are....
Spoken, as usual, like someone with nothing relevant to say.
Fortunately, most people on your side of the argument are equally incompetent.
Spoken like a true cultural marxist with his head in the sand. No one even mentioned skin colour, just nationality, and immediately you jump to the conclusion that he is a colour other than white - which makes YOU the filthy racist.
It's people like you that are making this country ignore the problems that are so blindingly obvious, all so you don't have to offend anyone and/or their cultural "heritage". You are the reason that people like Breivik exist.
This man had a job, he is married, he is an adult and have two kids. To make him look like some problemcase when he isn`t is just a way for you to put him in your mold of poor, abused and unprivileged minorities who is forced to commit crimes by the white man. He had a stable life but decided to rape a helpless minor anyway. That just goes to show that a criminal that have adopted bad values can be found anywhere. Thing is that these bad values are being adopted by certain groups more then in others. That should be found out and used to educated the public. It the end it might stop and the problem will be less frequent.