The three accused persons included, according to the police in a larger network of Swedish paedophiles. The network has ramifications to Blekinge, Östergötland, Uppsala and Stockholm.
In the skein included additional suspects, including a 35-year-old fembarnsmamma detained suspected of serious sexual abuse of children in the september of the Stockholm district court. The indictment against her is for formal reasons still not awakened.
the women must have used their own children, however, it is a task that kammaråklagaren so far not wanted to comment. Of the lawsuit is clear, however, that the offences regarded as serious, among other things, they must be carried out by persons that the plaintiffs had ”particular confidence”.
– What primarily distinguishes this case is that it is women who produced material which the men then bought and spread further, said prosecutor Emelie Källfeldt at Riksenheten against international and organised crime, to Rio, to the DN associated with that fembarnsmamman omhäktades in January of this year.
first, where Swedish women are being prosecuted for having used children as live in their vicinity in this way. Internationally, the phenomenon is not unknown, but occur primarily among women in poor countries that make it to earn money for their living. The ”customers” are all over the world.
ten children have been used by the now accused were between the ages of kindergarten and up to the early teens when they were photographed. The suspected offences were committed up to september 2017. None of the children have suffered any physical injury, then they have been photographed and filmed unknowingly, and the women have got them to pose without being aware of it.
It is unclear exactly how the women came in contact with the buyer of pictures, a 40-year-old man from a municipality north of Stockholm. He has according to the prosecutor, however, ordered pictures via the various chat services on the net. Through them, he should also have instructed the women about the types of images he wanted to they would take.
the Women have since been paid, both through the Swish and via direktinbetalningar on their bank accounts. The price ranges between a hundred and several thousand. Man charged for as well roughly pornografibrott as for the gross exploitation of children for sexual posering.
has been going on for over a year. Several arrests have been made, and on each occasion there have been new suspicions of crimes. Parts of the material is assessed by police and prosecutors ”clearly” aggravated sexual abuse, while in other parts it consists of nude images where the boundary of what is considered to be child pornography is not self-evident. The case will, therefore, bring legal interesting questions.
Would the court upon the conviction, for example, believe that it is about poseringsbrott are the sanctions in relation considerably lower than if one considers it proven that it is about sexual abuse against children.
the DN has searched the defendants lawyers. They do not want to comment on their clients ‘ attitude before the trial begins on Monday.
