The following articles have been tagged with "Paedophile":
National: 28 Dec 12
Police have arrested two men and two women for robbery after setting up honey traps online and luring or forcing their way into at least two victims' homes where they forced them to record "paedophile confessions".
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National: 21 Dec 12
The man behind a paedophile name-and-shame website that publishes details of mostly foreign-born sex offenders has himself been jailed for sexually exploiting a minor, according to Swedish media reports.
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Society: 20 Nov 12
Several residents in Örebro, central Sweden, were shocked when they sorted through their post recently and found a detailed account of a child sex crime committed by one of their neighbours.
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Science & Technology: 2 Nov 12
Swedes who are unable to control their sexual urges have flooded a new hotline which experts say has likely enabled a number of paedophiles get help with their conditions.
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National: 30 Oct 12
A 27-year-old man from eastern Sweden was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for child pornography crimes, after bullying 60 young girls into sending him nude images online.
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Science & Technology: 2 Oct 12
Swedish police on Monday raided Stockholm-based web hosting company PRQ – previous hosts to The Pirate Bay and whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks.
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National: 22 Jun 12
A 35-year-old Swedish man who is currently serving prison time for sexual offences against children has been charged with new offences involving children as young as one.
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National: 20 May 12
The house of a suspected paedophile was set ablaze on the night to Sunday, in what the police believe to be an arson attack.
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Society: 22 Feb 12
Controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks was forced to dodge eggs thrown by angry audience members while giving a lecture about his Muhammad cartoons and free expression at the University of Karlstad on Tuesday.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jan 12
A man convicted for child pornography crimes and over seventy counts of child rape is believed to have smuggled a memory stick with child pornography into a Swedish psychiatric ward where he is serving time.
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Society: 23 Jan 12
Roberto Saviano, author of Italian mafia exposé 'Gomorrah', and Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho were named the 2011 recipients of the Olof Palme Memorial Prize in Stockholm on Monday.
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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.
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Society: 8 Dec 11
Roy 'Chubby' Brown, dubbed “the most sexist, racist comedian in the UK” is coming to Sweden, leaving many - including Brown - wondering how somewhat more politically correct Swedes will react, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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National: 7 Nov 11
A new website set up by a Swede with ties to neo-Nazi groups and featuring the names and contact information of dozens of convicted child sex offenders has been reported for data privacy violations.
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National: 2 Nov 11
One call to social services was enough to land a Swedish couple behind bars and have their kids taken away for more than two months after an innocent situation was misinterpreted as sexual abuse.
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National: 25 Aug 11
A 41-year-old suspected paedophile currently in police custody may have had contact dozens more children via internet chat sites, Swedish police warn, appealing to the public for help in identifying potential victims.
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National: 4 Aug 11
Two Swedish suspects have been identified as part of a major global paedophile ring spanning 14 countries which has been exposed by the US police.
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National: 12 Jun 11
A 67-year-old Swedish man was charged with a score of child sex allegations in disaster-struck Haiti where he worked under the guise of an organization that purports to help street children.
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National: 19 May 11
A 35-year-old man from Stockholm considered to be one of Sweden's worst child sex offenders was sentenced to psychiatric care on Thursday for sexually assaulting more than a dozen pre-teen girls.
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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.
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National: 17 Apr 11
A 67-year-old Swede who is working as a teacher in Berlin has been arrested on suspicion of abusing children, as well as being one of the brains behind a large human smuggling ring.
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National: 14 Apr 11
Four men from the same family in eastern Sweden, accused of posing as children on the internet and blackmailing paedophiles, were remanded in custody on Thursday.
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Society: 6 Apr 11
Convicted paedophiles and sex offenders at a secure clinic in Växsjö in southern Sweden will regain internet access after a ban instigated in 2008 has been deemed illegitimate.
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National: 2 Mar 11
A 36-year-old man in southern Sweden charged with committing sex crimes against 30 young girls has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
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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.
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Society: 7 Feb 11
A 34-year-old man was charged on Monday for aggravated sexual crimes against 13 young girls between the ages of eight and 11.
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Education: 1 Feb 11
A Swedish paedophile received permission to open three schools despite a previous conviction of having sex with a seven-year-old girl, according to a television news report on Monday.
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National: 26 Oct 10
A district court in southern Sweden sentenced a man who lured 45 young girls and adolescents to pose in front of webcams to one year in prison on Tuesday.
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National: 18 Aug 10
Sten Erik Eriksson, a 79-year-old sex offender and dangerous convicted paedophile who escaped while on a leave of absence on Tuesday, was detained by police shortly before midnight while on a train to Oslo.
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National: 13 Aug 10
The 63-year-old Swedish man convicted for sexually assaulting three boys in Cambodia, will serve his 6.5 year sentence after a Cambodian court confirmed his conviction in the face of claims that he had paid $11,000 in bribes.
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National: 11 Aug 10
A 63-year-old Swedish man convicted and sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for sexually assaulting three boys in Cambodia, believes that he will soon be a free man after handing over $11,000 in bribes.
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Society: 27 Jul 10
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward on Tuesday after an eight-year-old girl was raped by a stranger in a Stockholm suburb.
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National: 29 Apr 10
A small business owner is suing Google Sweden for defamation, alleging Google hits link to blogs that call him a paedophile.
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National: 26 Apr 10
Bishop Anders Arborelius has said that he is "prepared to take the consequences" over the failure to investigate the alleged abuse of two sisters by a paedophile priest, first brought to the Catholic Church's attention in 1990.
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National: 9 Apr 10
Despite a new law designed to tackle grooming of young people by suspected paedophiles on internet websites, police are unable to act against those hosting chat forums, contact sites and advice pages.
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Society: 24 Jan 10
Despite surveys indicating half of Swedish girls under 15 have received online sexual advances, Sweden's 'anti-grooming' law has not led to any convictions since entering into force six months ago.
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National: 23 Jan 10
Headgear emblazoned with the label 'Pornstar' has cost a nursery worker his job after parents caught sight of the man wearing it on a Facebook photo.
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National: 19 Jan 10
A 62-year-old Swedish man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison by a Phnom Penh court for having sex with three boys.
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Society: 18 Jan 10
A website featuring personal information about Swedes convicted of sex crimes involving children has been reported to the police by Sweden's Data Inspection Board.
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National: 17 Jan 10
A man from southern Sweden is suspected of committing numerous sexual crimes on the internet with underage girls, perhaps hundreds.
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National: 18 Nov 09
A businessman from southern Sweden who attempted to pay for sex from two 18-year-old women instead found himself caught up in a blackmail scheme.
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National: 27 Aug 09
A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for raping a teenager and engaging in a series of webcam-related sex crimes involving 60 girls.
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National: 6 Aug 09
The discovery of a blog about naked children and life as an employee at a Stockholm preschool has led city officials to take action.
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Society: 5 Aug 09
A 62-year-old man found guilty of sex crimes perpetrated against eight girls over a period of several years had his sentence reduced on Wednesday from seven to five years.
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National: 9 Jul 09
A Swedish court has ruled that a 32-year-old father of two is guilty of having used threats to force more than 60 young girls to pose nude for him in front of their webcams.
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National: 16 Jun 09
Police in four Nordic countries carried out a join action on Tuesday morning to break up a suspected child pornography ring.
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National: 5 Jun 09
A 43-year-old convicted paedophile has been arrested on suspicions that he molested a little girl while on temporary leave from court-ordered psychiatric care.
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National: 29 May 09
A man who allegedly threatened to kill dozens of girls if they didn’t pose nude for him in front of a webcam was charged on Friday by the district court in Uppsala.
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National: 23 Apr 09
A man in Uppland in central Sweden is suspected of raping a minor and exploiting more than 70 young girls who were coerced into exposing themselves on the internet.
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National: 9 Apr 09
A Swedish policeman was sentenced on Thursday to 18 months in prison for sexually abusing two young brothers, media reported.
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National: 26 Mar 09
A Swedish police officer who blew the whistle on a convicted paedophile’s plans to start a youth education centre has himself been fined for defamation.
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Society: 18 Mar 09
Sweden’s Data Inspection Board has filed a complaint with the police about a website which posts information about sex offenders run by the Original Gangsters criminal gang.
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National: 17 Feb 09
Following a slew of protests from the general public, Sweden's Data Inspection Board has reported a website that names and shames convicted sex offenders, to the police.
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Society: 21 Jan 09
Sweden’s legacy of lax attitudes toward pornography has come back to haunt the country’s national library, which has been found to have large quantities of child pornography in its collection.
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Society: 6 Jan 09
Criminal organization Original Gangsters has assumed control of a controversial Swedish website that publishes the identity of sex offenders and has promised to increase the site's exposure.
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National: 9 Dec 08
A Swedish "Cyberpimp" is currently on trial at Stockholm district court, facing accusations that he sold at least 15 young women for sex.
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National: 19 Oct 08
A 52-year-old Norwegian paedophile sentenced for the aggravated assault of children escaped last week from psychiatric care in Denmark. Police fear that the man may be in Sweden.
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National: 16 May 08
A 44-year-old man is to face trial next week on charges of selling his mentally disabled young wife as a sex slave on at least 100 occasions.
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National: 13 May 08
Law enforcement authorities carried out a series of coordinated raids across Sweden on Tuesday against suspected paedophiles.
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Education: 10 Mar 08
At least 75 convicted sex criminals have worked as substitutes in Swedish schools and daycare centers since 2003.
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National: 26 Feb 08
Sweden has said it will not award damages to two women claiming to have been exploited in a major prostitution scandal in the 1970s.
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National: 11 Feb 08
The method involves cooperation between police, internet service providers, and anti-child porn groups.
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National: 28 Dec 07
A 60-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for child porn offences. The man was found with thousands of pictures and films on his computer.
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National: 18 Aug 07
A 40-year-old man from Sundsvall who has worked with children for 20 years been charged with sexually abusing children, exploiting children for sexual images and serious child pornography offences.
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Society: 22 Jul 07
A few years ago 50,000 images of child pornography would be considered a major haul by police, enough to classify the crime as serious. Today, millions of pictures must be seized - and even that might not be enough.
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Society: 20 Jul 07
Sweden's Catholic church has apologised for sex attacks against a child that were committed by a priest 50 years ago. The apology emerged in the form of a newspaper advertisements.
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Society: 19 Jul 07
The head of Sweden's Scout movement has called for volunteers who want to work with children to be subjected to criminal record checks. Children must be protected from paedophiles who try to infiltrate youth groups, he argued.
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Society: 17 Jul 07
Swedish anti-paedophile police trying to stem child sex tourism have opened an email address for tourists in Thailand to report child sex abuse.
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Society: 9 Jul 07
The Swedish Justice Department has launched a new proposal that would enable copyright holders to find out the identities of people illegally sharing their material on the internet.
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Society: 4 Jul 07
Parents are being advised by police not to put their holiday photos on the internet as as there is a major risk that they will be accessed by paedophiles.
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Science & Technology: 5 Jun 07
A website which defends paedophilia is being hosted by Swedish web hosting company PRQ. The company's owners, two of the founders of The Pirate Bay, defended the decision to host the site.
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National: 10 May 07
Two leaders of a gang of eight girls face criminal charges for their part in a vicious attack on a 14-year-old girl.
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National: 7 May 07
Police are looking out for a man in his sixties who led a 3-year-old girl away from her friends in the Stockholm suburb of Jordbro on Sunday.
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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.
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Society: 23 Apr 07
A new Swedish law could ban paedophiles from 'grooming' children over the internet. The law, if enacted, would mean Sweden had gone further than most countries in tackling the problem.
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Lifestyle: 10 Apr 07
It takes a special kind of man to be an Pentacostal preacher, a tireless Stockholm socialite and Carola's ex-husband. But Runar Sögaard takes it all in his stride, as Paul O'Mahony explains.
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Society: 23 Feb 07
A man is to appear in court next week after phoning random women picked out of the phone directory and asking them to castrate him. He told them he was a sex offender.
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Society: 20 Nov 06
Dozens of people who fear that they could sexually abuse children or rape women have turned to new centre in Stockholm since it opened six months ago. It is hoped the clinic will help prevent sexual offences.
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Politics: 17 Oct 06
Social Democrat press secretary Magnus Ljungkvist, who played a key role in bringing down trade minister Maria Borelius, has received a death threat, he has told journalists.
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National: 21 Sep 06
At least seven children are feared to have been raped by a 49-year old man from Norrtälje, near Stockholm. "We can't see where this is going to end," say police.
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Politics: 10 Sep 06
At least three people who have been found guilty of sex attacks on children are standing as candidates in the Swedish election.
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National: 22 Jun 06
Police are looking for an elderly man whom they suspect of trying to rape a four-year old girl. The man was allegedly interruped in a stairwell in Gothenburg.
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National: 30 May 06
British police raided an apartment in Gothenburg belonging to a Swedish Muslim who has congratulated suicide bombers. Swedish security services were also involved in the raid.
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Society: 10 May 06
Police in 13 EU countries and the US raided around 150 homes on Wednesday morning in a strike against an international online paedophile network.
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Society: 3 May 06
A convicted child sex offender who escaped from secure hospital last week has been arrested. The 27-year old was spotted by an off-duty policeman.
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National: 3 May 06
A 27 year old convicted sex offender who escaped from the secure psychiatric unit in Huddinge last Thursday told police he would return to the institution on Tuesday. He didn't.
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National: 27 Apr 06
Police and prosecutors involved in the trial of a 31 year old suspected paedophile have found evidence that child pornography films which have been distributed internationally were filmed in Sweden.
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National: 20 Mar 06
The man was a paid informer of the Swedish police. But according to the prosecution, he was one of Europe's leading distributors of child porgnography. His trial opened today.
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National: 6 Dec 05
Staff at the Court of Appeal in Sundsvall have been threatened after a paedophile's punishment for abusing a three year old girl was reduced - because she was asleep when the incident took place.
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Society: 9 Nov 05
See also: Anti-gay pastor: I regret nothing
Pastor Åke Green tells Sweden's Supreme Court that gays are more likely to become paedophiles. Prosecutors are pressing for the controversial anti-gay preacher to be jailed.
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Politics: 1 Nov 05
New laws are needed to stop internet grooming of children, says Justice Minister Thomas Bodström. He also wants to crack down on child pornography, he tells the Social Democrat conference in Malmö.
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National: 13 Sep 05
SEE ALSO: FOUR BOYS SUSPECTED OF GROUP RAPE
A 22 year old man who had sex with a 13 year old girl on several occasions has been found not guilty of rape and child abuse. The Sollentuna court said she looked older than she really was.
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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.
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National: 20 Jul 05
The number of sex crime cases quadruples as Swedish police clamp down on men using prostitutes. But at the same time, the case of a man who has allegedly had sex with dozens of underage girls he met through internet chat rooms highlights loopholes in the law.
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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.
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National: 9 Jun 05
A Swedish neo-Nazi who kept a list of names of over 1,000 people could be liable to pay over a million kronor in damages, following a judgement in Helsingborg. The man categorized people as "Jewish", "nigger", or "paedophile".
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National: 2 Jun 05
An Ericsson plant has been outed for secretly branding workers as 'paedophiles', 'Nazis' or 'troublemakers'. The company has distanced itself from the list, but unions say they will take action.
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National: 4 May 05
A Swedish champion from "a major spectator sport" has been arrested on suspicion of distributing child pornography on the Internet. He was one of 14 suspected paedophiles caught in a nationwide raid early on Tuesday morning.
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Society: 25 Apr 05
Several hundred Muslims protested on Sunday at a pentecostal church in Stockholm against a preacher who denigrated Islam's prophet Mohammed, calling him a "confused paedophile."
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National: 11 Apr 05
The founder of an odd spiritual movement is arrested in Malmö on suspicion of various child sex crimes and faces extradition to his homeland, Romania.
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