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Preschool teacher locked toddlers in dryer

Education: 2 May 12
A former preschool teacher was convicted on Wednesday of child abuse for having locked several young children in a drying cupboard at a preschool in western Sweden. READ »

Mother admits giving 3-year-old cigs and beer

National: 26 Mar 12
The mother from southern Sweden, charged with forcing her 3-year-old son to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, has confessed to all charges but was unable to offer any explanation why she acted the way she did. READ »

Swedish mother gave 3-year-old cigs and beer

Society: 7 Feb 12
A mother in Sweden has been charged with abuse and breach of alcohol laws after coaxing her 3-year-old to have beer and cigarettes. READ »

Dad leaves son in the cold for 'playing like crap'

National: 8 Jan 12
A 10-year-old boy was left outside in the cold wearing only a shorts and t-shirt in Uppsala in eastern Sweden on Saturday evening after his father felt the boy didn't deserve a ride home to Stockholm because he "played like crap" in a floorball tournament. READ »

Five year sentence for Swede's child sex crimes

National: 27 Dec 11
A 45-year-old Swedish man whose computer contained more than half a million images of child pornography, including some featuring infants, has been jailed for five years for child pornography crimes and child rape. READ »

Parents hit back over child abuse suspicions

National: 4 Sep 11
A five year-old girl was picked up from her pre-school by police officers and underwent a medical exam without the knowledge of her parents, who have reported the matter to the ombudsman. READ »

Dad charged for throwing daughter in the lake

National: 25 Aug 11
A father from suburban Stockhlom has been charged with child abuse after throwing his 7-year-old daughter in a lake from a trampoline located three metres above the surface of the chilly waters. READ »

Swede probed for leaving baby outside US eatery

National: 17 Aug 11
A Swedish mother has been accused of child abuse in the United States for leaving her one-year-old in a pram outside a restaurant. READ »

Abuse reports rise after Olympian's bombshell

Sport: 8 May 11
The number of reports of child sex abuse more than doubled in Sweden in the days following revelations by former Olympic high jumper Patrik Sjöberg that he was molested by his late coach and stepfather, a children's rights group has said. READ »

Swedish Olympian in coach sex abuse tell-all

Sport: 28 Apr 11
Revelations that Swedish Olympic high jumper Patrik Sjöberg faced years of sexual abuse by his late coach and stepfather have left the Swedish athletics establishment reeling. READ »

Babysitting free for all exposes children: report

National: 22 Mar 11
Sweden’s babysitting industry is booming, but there are currently no safeguards as to who can tout their trade on the internet leaving children exposed to exploitation. READ »

Priests in Sweden join the ranks of paedophiles

Society: 27 Feb 11
The Catholic Church of Sweden confirms three priests are believed to have sexually abused children over the span of 30 years. READ »

Global demonstrations call for Assange's release

National: 11 Dec 10
A number of demonstrations are set to take place around the world on Saturday to call for the release of beleaguered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from a London prison, where he awaits possible extradition to Sweden to face rape charges. READ »

Swedish banks join fight against child porn

Business & Money: 24 Nov 10
Cooperation between Swedish banks and police to stop the purchase of child pornography images over the internet has proved effective, the national banking association announced on Wednesday. READ »

Mum of 11 seeks alcohol smuggling jail pardon

Society: 26 Jul 10
A mother of 11 children sentenced to prison for alcohol smuggling and the illegal sale of alcohol is seeking a pardon to avoid jail time. READ »

'Catholics in Sweden must challenge Rome'

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Apr 10
The Catholic Church in Sweden must demand that the Vatican abolish celibacy for priests, allow women to be ordained, stop oppressing homosexuals, and reverse its ban on contraception, argues Swedish Catholic and poet Marcus Birro. READ »

How Aussie dad beat Swedish police to find kidnapped sons

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Oct 09
When Australian George Pesor's children were abducted by their mother on a visit to Sweden, police searched for six months without success. But when Pesor took matters into his own hands, he solved the case in just a week. READ »

Smacking kids is never acceptable: Swedish politician

Analysis & Opinion: 12 Aug 09
Thirty years have passed since Sweden banned parents from smacking their children. But Liberal Party MP Helena Bargholtz is dismayed to learn that New Zealand is holding a referendum to reintroduce the practice. READ »

Swedish charity: 'Child sex offenders are often teenagers'

National: 7 Mar 09
A trainee suspected of sexually abusing three pre-school children in Värmland is 14-years-old. Almost a third of all child abuses cases in Sweden involve teenager perpetrators, according to a children's charity. READ »

Dramatic rise in reports of child abuse

Society: 29 Dec 08
The number of cases of child abuse reported to the police has increased dramatically over the past year, new statistics from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) show. READ »

British professor wins prize for bar-fight research

Science & Technology: 20 Sep 07
This year's winner of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology is a professor from Cardiff who has done his bit to prevent people from being seriously hurt when glassed in the pub. READ »

Sweden sees increase in reports of child abuse

Society: 17 Sep 07
The number of reported cases of child abuse in Sweden has seen a five fold increase since 1988. READ »

Foster home child abuse 'worse than expected'

Society: 21 Aug 07
The level of child abuse in Swedish foster homes and orphanages from the 1950s to the 1980s has turned out to be "much worse than expected," according to a new government report. READ »

One in ten tourists 'has seen signs of child sex abuse'

Society: 4 Jun 07
Ten percent of those Swedes who have travelled outside Europe in the past three years say they have seen signs that fellow tourists were abusing children. Most say they did not report the abuse. READ »

'Report-a-paedophile' website ruled illegal

Science & Technology: 4 May 07
A website on which children can expose suspected online paedophiles has been ruled illegal by the Swedish Data Inspection Board. READ »

Angry crowds protest over child abuse case

National: 13 Apr 07
Crowds of angry demonstrators have gathered outside the town hall in Vetlanda, southern Sweden, to demand that the head of social services resigns over a child abuse scandal. READ »

Father raped daughter on deserted island

National: 20 Dec 06
A Swedish father who took his 10-year-old daughter camping on a secluded island did not do so out of parental benevolence. Over the course of the summer he subjected the girl to incessant sexual abuse. READ »

Crimes in care homes rarely reported

Society: 8 Oct 06
Sexual attacks and thefts against mentally and physically disabled people living in care homes are rarely reported to the police, being treated instead as internal matters, according to new research. READ »

Knutby sect member in child assault probe

National: 3 Oct 06
A member of the notorious Knutby religious sect has been arrested after allegations that he assualted children. READ »

Man accused of circumcising daughter

National: 7 Jun 06
A man has been charged with taking his daughter to Somalia to be circumcised. The case is the first time anyone has been charged since Sweden outlawed the practice in 1982. READ »

New child abuse commission after Bobby death

National: 5 May 06
The Swedish government is to set up a new commission to investigate when children die after being abused. The minister in charge has named it 'Bobby's Law' after a ten-year old boy from Småland. READ »

'University of crime' opens in Linköping

Society: 3 Apr 06
A research centre dedicated to the fight against crime opens in Linköping on Tuesday. Sex crime, economic crime, child abuse and leadership are amongst the subjects to be studied. READ »

Father gets 14 years for raping girl

Society: 17 Mar 06
A man who raped his daughter hundreds of times, and who twice made her pregnant, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail by a court in Gothenburg. READ »

Parents 'should get jail for boy's death'

Society: 13 Mar 06
The adoptive parents of a three-year old boy who died in January should be jailed for over a year, say prosecutors. But a doctor gives evidence in the parents' favour. READ »

Physical punishment increasing in Sweden

Society: 2 Jan 06
Despite the fact that it has been illegal for over 25 years, the punishment of children using force is increasing in Sweden, says Children's Ombudsman Lena Nyberg. READ »

Gender professor cleared of dishonesty

Society: 15 Dec 05
Claims made by academic Eva Lundgren - that ritual Satanist baby murders take place in Sweden and that half of all Swedish women have been subjected to violence by men - were not dishonest, says an inquiry. Just plain wrong. READ »

Paedophile "spread child porn from clinic"

National: 5 Sep 05
A man who has previously been found guilty of various serious sex offences, including rape and child abuse, is suspected of committing further crimes during his time as a patient at a Växjö psychiatric clinic. READ »

Child abuse is getting worse - Silvia

National: 16 Jun 05
See also: Queen Silvia praises Swedes' generosity
In an in-depth interview before a concert for her World Childhood Foundation, Sweden's Queen Silvia talks about her work helping abused children around the globe - and warns that there are many obstacles still to be overcome. READ »

More kids face summer violence

Society: 9 Jul 04
School holidays bring more violence against children, according to a new report, but the police are failing to deal with the problem. READ »

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