SVT (BBC equivalent) has come out today with an investigation. It illustrates that safeguarding is seen as an optional extra in some areas. Multiple rapes and councils paying off the rapist result!
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/radikal-islamist-fick-lararjobb-pa-hvb-hem-valdtog-17-arig-flicka
The google translate version below
In February 2023, the police arrest a middle school teacher accused of multiple rapes of a 17-year-old girl at an HVB home in Örebro, where he works part-time as a homework helper.
At the first suspicion, the now 32-year-old man is forced to leave his workplace.
Accused and bought out
He is a teacher at a school in Hallsberg municipality, where he is suspended during the investigation.
The teacher is acquitted in the district court – but the verdict is appealed. The municipality then buys him out for 12 months' salary, half a million kronor, in the autumn of 2023.
Is there a risk that the problem will be passed on?
- There are risks in everything. What happens in the next stage, based on a new employment, is very difficult to speculate on, says Hallsberg's school director Catharina Lindvall-Scharmer.
IS sympathizer
What the HVB home and school missed is that in the 2010s, under a different name, the man was identified as a radical Islamist. He has expressed support for IS and can be linked to several extremist groups.
– He is married into a family that is the hub for much of the radical Islamist ideology at this time, says Magnus Ranstorp, a terror researcher at the Swedish National Defence University.
In 2018, Säpo stopped the man from becoming a security guard, but he can still get a teaching license in 2020.
– The Swedish National Agency for Education does not receive that information from Säpo, says Jonas Krantz, head of administration at the Swedish National Agency for Education.
Is there any background check at all?
– No, the license does not take into account whether you are suitable, the employer does.
Bought out again
SVT's investigation shows that he has worked at six schools, two Sis homes and one HVB home since 2014.
During ongoing rape charges in 2024, the teacher is also hired again, in Surahammar municipality.
They quickly buy him out – for another half a million kronor.
- We think it is inappropriate for him to continue working, says Mikael Svensson, HR manager at Surahammar municipality.
Two weeks later, in the fall of 2024, the man is sentenced to six years in prison by the Court of Appeal. The agreement with Surahammar states that the man has a full-time salary until October of this year.
Does this mean that he will receive a salary from you in prison?
- I cannot comment on the individual case, but generally the agreement means salary during an extended notice period, says Mikael Svensson.