The Attorney General wants the Supreme Court to decide when rape of a child at a distance should be counted as a serious crime.
In May this year, a 26-year-old man was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison by the Svea Court of Appeal. He had persuaded several girls aged 10-17 to take pictures and films of themselves and send them to him.
The man was convicted of a number of sexual offenses against children, including rape of children, aggravated sexual abuse and aggravated exploitation of children for sexual posing.
The Public Prosecutor is now appealing the verdict. In three cases, the man had been charged with aggravated rape of a child, but convicted of a crime of the normal degree in the district court and court of appeal.
RÅ wants, among other things, the Supreme Court to rule on the circumstances in which long-distance rape should be assessed as a serious crime.
“It has been a matter of protracted and painful events preceded by threats and they have been part of repeated abuses against the girls. There is also nothing in the legal text or in practice that says that physical contact is required for rape of children to be judged as serious “, says Attorney General Petra Lundh in a press release.