SWEDEN

Syrians raped girl in public toilet – avoids jail
Published 2026-05-20

The then 15-year-old boy with immigrant background from Syria had a 14-year-old girlfriend but was not satisfied with how the relationship developed. According to the prosecutor, it was to punish and humiliate the girl that he raped her on several occasions. The penalty for the crimes is seven years in prison but he gets away with youth supervision for a year.

At the end of April, Samnytt reported that it all started last December when the boy abused the girl at a school in Gothenburg where he is suspected of having kicked and putt her and taken strangles so that she got short of breath.

In a library, he then forced her to go down on all fours and say she was his whore or a dog. With the violence and threat of spreading movies on her, the girl was then forced to perform oral sex on him at a travel center. Both events were filmed by the boy.
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A few days later, the boy forced the girl to cut off a piece of her hair and then committed another rape against her that is also considered aggravated. This time, again at the travel center, he strangled her to unconsciousness and spat on her. This was also filmed.
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Now the Gothenburg District Court has announced the verdict against the Syrian was born in Sweden to parents who immigrated from Syria. He is convicted of aggravated rape of children, rape of children, abused by children for sexual posing, unlawful coercion, child pornography offences and two cases of violation of contact bans.

The district court considers that the total punitive value of the crime corresponds to about seven years in prison. However, because the boy is a minor – and now 16 years old – he is sentenced to youth supervision for one year. He will also pay SEK 520 000 in damages to the vulnerable girl.