Jail for stay-at-home father who raped 17-year-old girl

The punishment for the man, who is in his 50s, will be imprisonment for six years and six months, Norrköping district court announced. He is also convicted of a case of sexual harassment.

According to the prosecutor, the abuse took place systematically when the girl was dependent on the man.

"It is aggravating that the man took advantage of the girl's trust in him, but there are not sufficient reasons to judge the rapes as serious," says Kajsa Malmström, councilor and president of the court, in a comment.

The 17-year-old girl reported the abuse several times to the social services in Sundsvall municipality, which placed her with the man in Östergötland. The girl also told the school and child and youth psychiatry (BUP), who reported their concerns about what they heard. However, social services said no to moving the girl and maintained that a relocation "was not relevant", according to P4 Västernorrland.

Only after the 17-year-old voluntarily recorded the man's sexual advances did social services act, in connection with the fact that the man could be arrested on suspicion of rape. By then, 51 days had passed since the girl's first alarm.

Social services have reported themselves to the Inspectorate for Care and Care (Ivo) after the incident. In its report, the municipality admitted several serious shortcomings in the handling of the case, including communication, information and routines.

- We need to develop our work with weighing together information when we receive conflicting or different information from different parties and how we work with our risk assessments and reconsider them when new information comes into the case, Johan Vikström, director of administration at Sundsvall Municipality, told P4 Västernorrland.

The case has received a lot of attention in the media since it was reviewed by the radio. The girl was also later placed, against her will, in another part of the country by social services. Shortly thereafter, she took her own life.