Webcam Pedophile sentenced to eight years
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.
The man was sentenced by
Uppsala district court for a list of 65 charges of sexual offences including aggravated child exploitation through sexual posing, child rape, and sexual coercion.
The 33-year-old father of two was also ordered to pay a total of 1 million kronor ($140,400) in compensation to the girls.
The court found the man guilty of the charges in the beginning of July but his sentencing has been delayed due to him undergoing a month's psychiatric examination.
The examination has led to the conclusion that the man is not suffering from any serious psychological impairment.
The case came to light after the man was accused of raping a 14-year-old girl from the Stockholm area who he had known previously, rather than through an encounter on the internet.
A girl from western Sweden contacted police shortly thereafter to report that a man had contacted her on the internet and forced her to perform sex acts in front of a webcam and threatening to kill her if she did not comply.
Police were then able to trace the man's IP-address and discover that the accused rapist and the webcam offender were the same man.
The 33-year-old was arrested in December 2008 and was charged by the Uppsala court at the end of May. He has remained in custody throughout the duration of the investigation.
Pedophile sees jail term cut to five years
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.
The case against the man began to unfold when police looked into allegations that he had treated one of the girls to alcohol. His victims ranged in age from 11 to 16 at the time of the abuses.
The man was convicted in May in a district court in southern Sweden on several counts of rape, child rape, sexual exploitation of a minor, child sex abuse and sexual harassment.
But the Court of Appeal for Skåne and Blekinge on Wednesday cleared the 62-year-old on one count of sexual harassment and two counts of child rape, cutting his sentence to five years.
In May, the district court found the 62-year-old guilty of nine instances of child rape. But the appeals court ruled that the prosecutor had in fact only proved beyond doubt that the man had perpetrated six cases of child rape.
In the case of the charge of sexual harassment, it was a "single incident that lasted a short time," the court wrote in its verdict. The court added that the man in this case had voluntarily broken off his advances, which had not been of a particularly intimate nature.
The appeals court found the 62-year-old guilty of rape on two counts, six counts of child rape, as well as seven counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, child sex abuse and sexual harassment. The court also reduced the level of compensation payable to the victims from 455,000 to 266,000 kronor ($37,000).