It starts with a 14-year-old girl raising the alarm that a Swedish man has assaulted her.
Shortly afterwards, the man is reported for similar crimes by four other teenage girls at the youth center in Norway where he works.
A few weeks later, the 14-year-old girl kills herself.
At the same time, the criminal suspect takes refuge in Sweden – where only a couple of months later he gets a job as a treatment assistant in a nursing home.
In the application, he writes: “I’m good at what I do, so no disappointments here.” In fact, in September charges will be brought against the man, who is accused of attempted rape and assault.
Suspected of committing assault in his sports car
It is in a series of reports in VG that the story unfolds. The man, who is in his 50s, gets a job at a residence in Norway where vulnerable teenage girls with substance abuse problems stay.
For VG, witnesses state that he often arrives at work in nice sports cars. Sometimes he takes the girls for a drive. It is also during these that several of the abuses take place, according to the police reports.
In social media, he is said to have posted pictures of weapons and large piles of banknotes.
When the 14-year-old girl raises the alarm about the first assault, the man has to stop for the day. But after VG’s review, there has been criticism of how the employment processes are carried out.
– That several young people who lived in this institution may have been exposed to this type of gross abuse by an employee is very serious and deeply tragic for those affected, says Jan Kato Fremstad, divisional director of the Norwegian Agency for Children, Youth and Families (Bufdir ) in Norway.
The Swedish municipality is not aware of the allegations
When VG contacts the Swedish municipality where the man works today, they say that they do not know about the criminal suspicions against him. He works with people with disabilities and in the role of treatment assistant he is expected to create security and stability.
The Swedish police do not want to comment on the case, but in a written statement to VG they write that the man is free to look for a job as long as he has not been convicted of the crimes he is accused of.
In March, the trial against the man begins in Norway.
– I haven’t done anything. Absolutely not. And it will come to light, the man told VG earlier this fall.