In March, the district court sentenced the man to 14 years in prison for, among other things, aggravated rape of a child and aggravated sexual abuse of a child. The man appealed to the Court of Appeal, which reduced the sentence to eight years.
Unlike the District Court, the Court of Appeal ruled that one of the charges should be assessed as aggravated sexual abuse of a child and not aggravated rape of a child. According to the Court of Appeal, the act, which the man filmed, did not meet the requirements for oral sex as he had no contact with the girl’s genitals at the time, only her anal opening.
Permission to appeal is not granted
Prosecutor General Petra Lundh appealed the decision to the High Court on the grounds that the man’s abuse was so serious that it was comparable to intercourse. Now HD announces that the case will not be granted leave to appeal, thereby confirming the Court of Appeal’s verdict.
In addition to the controversial case, the Court of Appeal convicted the man of, among other things, a case of aggravated rape against a child, several cases of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, aggravated exploitation of children for sexual posing and aggravated child pornography offences.
In another high-profile case concerning the rape of children – the so-called snippadom – the High Court has granted leave to appeal to investigate whether the Court of Appeal was guilty of a trial error.