Two girls at an HVB home in Östergötland repeatedly sold sex to a man who came to the accommodation.
In exchange, they received drugs and cigarettes.
“We take what has happened very seriously“, writes the accommodation in a comment to TV4 Nyheterna.
When staff at an HVB home in Östergötland noticed that two girls at the accommodation had jumped into a car several times together with an unknown man, they became worried. In the end, the girls told that they sold sex, reports the news agency Siren.
The incident has been reported to the police, but due to confidentiality, the accommodation cannot say how far the process has progressed. In police interviews, the girls say that they were subjected to various abuses in exchange for cannabis, cigarettes and money.
“We think that what happened is terrible and it makes us very sad. No young person should be exposed to abuse,” writes the accommodation in a comment.
Got in touch on social media
The accommodation has also reported the incident according to lex-Sarah to the Inspectorate for Care and Care, Ivo. In the report, it appears that the girls suffered both physical and psychological suffering.
The incidents occurred in August and December last year. The girls are said to have made contact with the man via social media. There they decided to meet at a stable where the abuse took place.
Furthermore, they write that both girls have different “risk behaviors” noted by the staff.
“One has engaged in risky sexual behavior and the other is judged to need to develop his ability to protect himself from exposing himself to danger,” the report states.
“History of vulnerability”
How could this have happened?
“The combination of the target group we work with, young people with a history of vulnerability, let down by adults in various ways and the limited opportunities we as HVB homes have to protect these young people contribute to this happening. If we were parents and found out that our child was in contact with unknown adults on social media, we would have taken the mobile phone, but staff at HVB are not allowed to do that”.
They write that there were shortcomings in how they worked with the young people’s vulnerability on social media, as well as the duty of substitute therapists to document.
How are the girls?
“Due to confidentiality, we cannot answer that”.