Paedophile

The following articles have been tagged with "Paedophile":

Online sex 'grooming' law lacks teeth

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. READ »

Pornstar cap 'no attire for nursery worker'

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. READ »

Swedish paedophile jailed in Cambodia

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. READ »

Paedophile site reported for privacy violations

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. READ »

Sweden probes webcam paedophile suspect

National: 17 Jan 10
A man from southern Sweden is suspected of committing numerous sexual crimes on the internet with underage girls, perhaps hundreds. READ »

Swedish man charged for blackmailing sex buyer

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. READ »

Webcam paedophile sentenced to eight years

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. READ »

Preschools warned of paedophile blogger

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. READ »

Paedophile sees jail term cut to five years

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. READ »

Paedophile found guilty of webcam sex crimes

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. READ »

Dozens questioned in Nordic child porn raid

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. READ »

Convicted paedophile accused of new abuse

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. READ »

Paedophile charged for webcam sex crimes

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. READ »

Swedish police in major paedophile sting

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. READ »

Paedophile policeman jailed in Sweden: report

National: 9 Apr 09
A Swedish policeman was sentenced on Thursday to 18 months in prison for sexually abusing two young brothers, media reported. READ »

Cop fined for outing child sex offender

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. READ »

Sex offender website reported to police

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. READ »

Police to investigate Swedish sex offender website

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. READ »

Swedish national library in child porn scandal

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. READ »

Criminal gang takes over sex offender website

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. READ »

'Cyberpimp' trial opens in Stockholm

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. READ »

Norwegian paedophile on the loose

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. READ »

Man sold mentally disabled wife for sex

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. READ »

Swedish police target paedophiles

National: 13 May 08
Law enforcement authorities carried out a series of coordinated raids across Sweden on Tuesday against suspected paedophiles. READ »

Schools employing sex offenders

Education: 10 Mar 08
At least 75 convicted sex criminals have worked as substitutes in Swedish schools and daycare centers since 2003. READ »

Sweden rejects child prostitution damages claim

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. READ »

EU to adopt Nordic method of fighting web-based child porn

National: 11 Feb 08
The method involves cooperation between police, internet service providers, and anti-child porn groups. READ »

60-year-old man jailed for child porn

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. READ »

Suspected paedophile worked with children

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. READ »

Campaigners slam Swedish courts' lenience over child porn

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. READ »

Catholic church apologises for sex attacks

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. READ »

'Carry out criminal checks on youth leaders'

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. READ »

Swedes in Thailand asked to report paedophiles

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. READ »

Fresh clampdown on internet piracy

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. READ »

Paedophiles scour net for holiday snaps

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. READ »

Swedish company hosts paedophile site

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. READ »

Girl gang charged for brutal assault

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. READ »

Police seek suspected paedophile in Stockholm suburb

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. 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 »

New law could ban 'grooming'

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. READ »

Introducing...Runar Sögaard

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. READ »

Man asked strangers to castrate him

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. READ »

Paedophiles turn to new clinic

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. READ »

Death threat to minister's nemesis

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. READ »

Man 'could have raped 7 children'

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. READ »

Convicted paedophiles stand in Swedish election

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. READ »

Police chase Gothenburg paedophile

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. READ »

British police in Gothenburg 'terror' raid

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. READ »

Swedes seized in international paedophile raid

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. READ »

Escaped paedophile caught by police

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. READ »

Paedophile still on the run

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. READ »

Child pornography filmed in Sweden

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. READ »

Police informer in court on child porn charge

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. READ »

Appeal court threatened after paedophile judgement

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. READ »

Green case brings Bible talk to court

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. READ »

Stop internet grooming - Bodström

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. READ »

Man freed after sex with 13 year old girl

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. 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 »

Paedophiles slip through net despite sex laws

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. 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 »

Neo-Nazi faces damages claims "worth millions"

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". READ »