A fifteen-year-old boy is sentenced for aggravated rape and attempted murder of a nine-year-old girl in Skellefteå.
The penalty will be forensic psychiatric care with a special discharge examination.
“Because the defendant suffers from a serious mental disorder and needs psychiatric care combined with deprivation of liberty and other coercion, the district court hands him over to forensic psychiatric care,” writes Skellefteå district court in a press release.
According to the district court, there is a risk that the boy will relapse into “serious crime”.
The boy must also pay SEK 730,000 in damages to the girl, and pay damages to the girl’s parents.
Background
It was on July 7 that the girl was found badly injured in a wooded area in the district of Morö Backe in Skellefteå. She had been subjected to extensive violence and, according to the indictment, will receive a permanent sentence. Among other things, the 15-year-old tried to strangle the girl with a shoelace.
The girl has not been able to be questioned about what happened because of the severe injuries. It was only “temporary circumstances that meant that the crime was not completed and the girl did not die,” the prosecutor wrote in a press release in connection with the prosecution.
The boy
Early in the investigation, doubts arose about the boy’s age.
The day after the girl was found, the police stated that there was a suspect under the age of 15, who, due to his young age, was not of legal age. But in mid-July, the head of the investigation decided that the Forensic Medicine Agency would carry out an age investigation.
The results indicated that the suspect is 15 years of age or older and thus of legal age.
The boy has denied the charge of attempted murder, but accepts the charges of aggravated rape of a child and extremely aggravated assault.
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