SVT Nyheter Väst has examined the case of the twelve children who lived under an extreme Romani culture of honor. The family has been registered at 17 addresses in 13 municipalities since the mother became pregnant with the first child.
Today, the eleven oldest children are placed in LVU, according to the prosecutor, while the twelfth child, who is only two weeks old, is with the mother in an investigation home.
Now the prosecutor Oscar Johansson has charged the parents and a female relative with gross arbitrariness with children. The parents are charged with a serious crime.
– I believe that the crimes should be assessed as serious because it involved a systematic withholding for a longer period of time when they moved around the country in order to prevent the care from being provided. They have also used tracking devices. The children have also been withheld from schooling and dental care, which must also be taken into account in the assessment, says Chamber prosecutor Oscar Johansson, who is the head of the preliminary investigation.
Initially, suspicions of abuse against three children in Mellerud were also investigated, but these have now been closed due to a lack of evidence.
The man is also charged with assault and breach of child protection against two of his own children, as well as fraud and assault where a police officer is the plaintiff.
The crime period is autumn 2023 through October 2024 and the crimes have been committed in Karlstad, Alvesta and Växjö.
The text is updated