A light sentence has been handed out to six teenage boys, aged 15 to 17, from the diverse Muslim community in Sweden for
raping a 15-year-old girl
in a north-western suburb of Stockholm in March. Five of the teens were
found guilty of aggravated rape by the Solna District Court, with the
sixth guilty of attempted aggravated rape.
Five of the boys were sentenced to over one hundred hours of
community service each, and have been ordered to pay 55,000 kronor
($8,500) each, in damages to the victim. The punishment given to the
sixth, if any, was not reported.
The reason given for the light punishment was the fact that the boys
are minors. The Swedish court also concluded that the boys had already
been already punished to some extent by having their pictures and their
personal details exposed on the internet.
The attack took place in early March at an apartment in Tensta, where
teens took turns raping the girl. Four of the boys confessed but denied
that they committed any crime.
It is worth noting that the court never doubted that the incident
took place and that it was rape. The court found the girl's testimony to
be "a cohesive, long, and relatively detailed account" that did not
contain "any contradictions or elements to the story that could be
considered inexplicable."
Ironically, although the UN ranks Sweden high on the list when it comes to women's rights,
a highly publicized
study
shows that Sweden has become the second highest rape capital of the
world (after South Africa) and the highest incidents of reported rapes
in Europe, twice as many as the UK, the runner-up country and six times
as many of the U.S.
The
incidences of rape have shot up as Sweden has accepted immigrants from
Muslim countries. Although Muslims now make up 6 % of the Swedish
population, 77.6% of all rape crimes are committed by Muslims.
Statistics now suggest that
1 out of every 4 Swedish women will
be raped in her lifetime (Between the ages of 16-79), with the
statistics higher in urban centers where the immigrants cluster. In
Stockholm last summer there was
an average of five rapes reported per day,
with the largest increases being found in children under 15. Stockholm
is now made up of one-third immigrant and is between a fifth and a
quarter Muslim.
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