One summer day almost two years ago, colleagues witnessed the physical education teacher filming girls changing.
The next day, the police broke down his door and confiscated computers and hard drives. There, folder after folder was discovered, named after girls at the prestigious school.
Physical education teachers are charged with child pornography offences
The children were not questioned about the PE teacher
The child investigator on the case of the sports teacher: “The dark story exists”
The man in his 50s was charged this year with serious child pornography offences, sexual harassment and offensive photography against a total of over 100 students. The crimes must have been committed between 2019 and 2022.
At 11 o’clock today the verdict will be announced.
Documented alarms since 2005
In a series of publications, SVT Nyheter has revealed how children, students and teachers at several different schools raised the alarm about the sports teacher. A previous secret investigation shows that the first documented alarms reached the school management in Haninge municipality as early as 2005.
But despite that, the man was allowed to continue working at the school until 2014. Then he was transferred to a new school in the municipality, but after accusations of filming under a girl’s dress, he was bought out by Haninge municipality for over half a million kroner. No police report was made.
Two years later, in 2018, he got a job at the prestigious school in Central Sweden.
New registrations
The police have recently drawn up two new reports of serious child pornography offenses against the man who is not part of the indictment.
According to SVT’s information, at least one of the reports is about events that should have occurred in Haninge municipality between 2014 and 2016. It was only after SVT’s review that the police in Haninge received the report on their desk.
The physical education teacher worked during these years at a school in Haninge municipality, but was bought out for just over SEK 550,000 after accusations of filming under a girl’s dress.