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Unbelievable scandal in Sweden over lack of safeguarding

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Timetodustofftheplaystation · 19/02/2025 10:35

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.
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dottiehens · 19/02/2025 11:09

I have not clicked on your link so not sure what it is. However, I heard something very negative about Sweden and the failure of progressive policies. As bad as being called a failed state.

ShockedandStunnedRepeatedly · 19/02/2025 11:25

Bloody hell.

ComtesseDeSpair · 19/02/2025 11:48

On the basis that I doubt many people on MN read Swedish or follow Swedish news terribly closely, it’s not really possible to have a cogent discussion about whether this case points to systemic safeguarding failing in the Swedish education system (and potentially other systems) or whether this is an example of a perfect storm of Swiss cheese where one dangerous individual was able to make it through holes which lined up in a range of policies.

Apart from posting this article, what discussion were you hoping to instigate?

ShockedandStunnedRepeatedly · 21/02/2025 08:23

I think it bears investigation. After all, Sweden was being lauded by DU’s counsel in the Peggie case as a bastion of progress…

Is PP thinking this is just someone trying to stir up racist sentiment? Sorry, I’m new to internet forums. I don’t want to be taken in by trolls so any advice is welcome.

LondonPapa · 21/02/2025 08:28

ComtesseDeSpair · 19/02/2025 11:48

On the basis that I doubt many people on MN read Swedish or follow Swedish news terribly closely, it’s not really possible to have a cogent discussion about whether this case points to systemic safeguarding failing in the Swedish education system (and potentially other systems) or whether this is an example of a perfect storm of Swiss cheese where one dangerous individual was able to make it through holes which lined up in a range of policies.

Apart from posting this article, what discussion were you hoping to instigate?

I follow Swedish news, this is the tip of the iceberg. So much worse is to come. When it is all finally out, Sweden will have a lot of work to do and a serious rethink as to policies on refugees. It is already happening to an extent but it isn’t going far enough.

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