A girl in Skaraborg spread naked images of a boy of the same age but was acquitted of criminal responsibility. According to the indictment, the girl spread an image of the boy's genitals and a video of his buttocks by sending them in a Snapchat group chat. The images were sent in a group chat involving the plaintiff, the accused, and three other people, and there was already a lot of arguing in the group chat before the images were sent.
The girl admitted to sending the images but denied the crime, arguing that the distribution was not likely to cause harm to the plaintiff. It is unclear how she obtained the images, and the plaintiff does not know how the accused got hold of the images. The boy had taken the images himself and sent them to another person, who allegedly spread them further.
According to the accused's statement, the images were sent to find out if the rumor was true that there were images of the plaintiff. The images disappeared when the accused left the group chat. How long the images were available has not been investigated, according to the district court.
The distribution was not likely to cause harm to the plaintiff.
Sending images to three to four people is normally not considered distribution to more than a 'few' according to guiding cases reviewed by the district court. In this case, the images were sent to three other people but disappeared when she left the group chat, so the district court judged that the distribution did not meet the extent required for criminal responsibility. An influencer published a video clip on social media in the fall, which got over 130,000 views on the platform.
In the clip, the influencer claims a man from Jönköping municipality threatened to hit him with a hammer and called him a derogatory term. The man from Jönköping was not named in the clip, but his profile picture was shown, leading several people to recognize him the day after publication. Someone posted on Discord and was convicted for child pornography offenses.
A woman shared an image via Discord, an online chat forum. The woman was tracked down after police received a tip from the USA from NCMEC, a non-profit organization that works to protect children from sexual exploitation. The woman was arrested in her home in the county, and a house search was conducted in November last year.
The images were sent to find out if the rumor was true that there were images of the plaintiff.
In interrogations, the woman admitted she shared the image with a friend for entertainment purposes, describing it as a meme and for humorous purposes. The image shows three boys in sexual positions and is assessed as particularly ruthless abuse material, according to the police preliminary investigation protocol. The image has gone viral and is frequently spread among youth, according to the police preliminary investigation protocol.
The woman does not believe she committed a crime because her intent was not to harm anyone, stating in interrogation that it would be crazy to punish her for it. Östersund District Court found the woman guilty of child pornography offense for sharing the image, regardless of her intent. The woman was sentenced to a conditional sentence and daily fines totaling 1500 kronor, plus 1000 kronor to the crime victim fund.
A man is charged with multiple cases of aggravated rape of children, aggravated sexual abuse of children, gross violation of integrity, assault, and child pornography offenses. A woman is charged with aggravated rape of a child on one occasion because she failed to intervene despite being obligated to do so. According to suspicions, the crimes the man is charged with were committed over many years and in several places in the country.
Police have conducted thorough investigative work, with a large number of interrogations, technical evidence, and IT-technical evidence strengthening suspicions against the man and woman, according to senior prosecutor Lisa Forsberg. The trial in the district court is expected to start on May 15 and last for 15 days. The case number in Östersund District Court is B 66-23.
The prosecutors in the case are not available to the media, but police inspector Kristin Larsén and investigation leader Johan Sangby are available to the media on Friday, May 5, from 14–15 by phone and at Trygghetens hus in Östersund.