A Swedish man from the central Uppland region has been arrested on charges of raping a minor and exploiting at least 70 underage girls using the Internet. The police have described the sting as the biggest of its kind to date in Sweden.
The suspect is in his 30s, and is believed to have coerced dozens of young girls to strip and perform sexual acts in front of an Internet web camera. The man used threats to scare the girls, most of whom were under the age of 15, into stripping for the camera, according to the Uppsala Nya Tidning newspaper.
“The investigation has grown exponentially. I do not know of any other case with this scope,” prosecutor Thomas Balter Nordenman said to the newspaper. An investigation was launched last autumn when a 14 year-old girl reported she had been raped by the suspect. She also confirmed that he had first made her strip online using a web cam.
After tracing the man’s IP address, he was arrested. Police were able to recover 1,500 online chat conversations with various girls from his computer. Many tips from the public helped police track down the identification of such a large number of the girls.
Nordenman hopes to have the suspect charged before May for a range of sexual crimes such as raping a child, sexual coercion and aggravated sexual exploitation of children. “I am going to seek a long custodial sentence,” the prosecutor commented.
It’s right that paedophile will be arrested as they are threats to kids. I am really scared to encounter paedophiles again in our neighborhood. We have like them 3 years age.They threaten some of the kids, fortunately someone reported them to the police. But, I heard they were not sentenced. Fortunately I transferred to another state. I am really afraid at that time for my kids. Hopefully I could not encounter paedophiles again.
I’m overwhelm to read posts like this, its so justifying that paedophile are not worth to be out there. More victims will be in danger once they are outside continuing to do the crime. Let’s all protect the welfare of all the children.
I thought that the word “paedophile” is misspelled heheh so that is a swedish word anyways. I really don’t know what this kind of people can get from raping innocent child? That was inhumane and that man must be jailed for long period of time.
I think the local government should impose a greater punishment for this type of case. This kind of people should be locked in jail forever…
This man has no place in society! I agree, he should be locked forever! He has ruined so many lives already. I pray for all of his victims to find peace and solace…and be able to lead normal lives.
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this are not man and not even animals, pedophil are like the pest, once taked , must loked in a hole locked and then lose the keys forever.
It makes me think about the death penalty..or at least somewhere that the same could be done to him for the rest of his life.
He MUST be locked forever.