A father from Älvsbyn involved in the LVU scandal has been acquitted of aggravated child pornography charges due to a date error in the indictment, according to reports. The Luleå District Court convicted the man of two counts of child pornography, giving him a conditional sentence, but acquitted him of the more serious charge of aggravated child pornography.
The acquittal stemmed from a procedural error where the date in the indictment was five months before the police search that uncovered the evidence. Prosecutor Rickard Finnberg has now appealed the verdict to the Court of Appeal, seeking a harsher penalty. Finnberg described the date error as "an accident at work" that was missed during the indictment, trial, and by the court itself.
an accident at work
The father was also acquitted of possessing 5,000 images and 31 films that in some cases were assessed as particularly ruthless abuse material. According to the prosecutor, if convicted of aggravated child pornography, the normal penalty would be at least one year in prison. The case is now proceeding to the Court of Appeal for reconsideration.