Teen girl 'agreed to be kidnapped', suspect freed
Published: 19 Jul 12 08:32 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/42112/20120719/
A 32-year-old man from southern Sweden suspected of kidnapping a teenage girl he met online was released on Wednesday after two weeks in custody when it emerged the girl had willingly participated in the stunt.
The man had been held since he was arrested in Malmö on the evening of July 3rd after the girl's parents called police to say the 16-year-old had been kidnapped.
They reported having received a text message from their daughter saying she was being held captive by the 32-year-old, with whom she had first come to know through contacts made on an internet chat room.
By the time police caught up with the man, he had driven her more than 100 kilometres from her home of Kristianstad in southern Sweden to the Rosengård district of Malmö.
Suspicions that the girl had been kidnapped were strengthened when police found her wearing handcuffs in the back of the man's car.
Due to the serious nature of the criminal suspicions against him, the 32-year-old was ordered held on remand while prosecutors investigated the case.
However, a search of the man's computer revealed evidence that the 16-year-old had actually been a willing participant in her own mock abduction.
"The plaintiff had agreed to everything that happened, which was confirmed by a review of the 32-year-old's computer," Ljungahl told the paper.
"Due to the special circumstances of the case, it's not possible to back up accusations that a crime has taken place."
Attempts to reach the prosecutor for comment on the case were unsuccessful.
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participating in kidnapping stunt, IN MY OPINION, should be only to pretend to the world that you are being kidnapped. Not that in private you need to act the same :P its not a game in the bed :P
There are too many unknowns to pass a judgement such as yours....now is the guy an idiot? That goes without saying..........
The police and prosecutors investigated and found she was a willing participant. Foolish probably, but not illegal.
If you don't like that, then change the consent laws. But I suggest that's a bad idea. 16 is a reasonable age of consent. And I say this as the father of a 16 year old girl.
introduce me to ur 16yr old daughter. i'm 36 though... is that ok!?