Swedish man on trial for ‘raping’ Canadian girls — over the internet

[Anonymous]

Blackmail yes, rape, fuck no.

A man is on trial in Sweden charged with a novel crime: raping girls in Canada and two other foreign countries entirely over the internet, with no physical contact between him and the alleged victims.



Experts here call it a unique prosecution, one that challenges the definition of sexual assault and underscores how global connectivity has led to previously unheard-of crimes.



Bjorn Samstrom, a 41-year-old man from near Uppsala allegedly threatened to kill the girls he met over social networks or post photos of them on pornography sites, unless they performed sexual acts, including bestiality, in front of webcams as he watched.



The 41-year-old man from near Uppsala, Sweden, is charged with "gross rape" and other offences related to 27 victims in Canada, the U.S. and Britain.



Among them were one girl each in Ontario and Alberta, both aged 13 when they were victimized in late 2015, said Annika Wennerström, one of the prosecutors involved in the case.



No one in Sweden has ever been convicted of rape for deeds that occurred over the internet — let alone on another continent — but prosecutors are hoping to set a precedent, she said.



"We're really challenging the court now with this case," admitted Wennerström in an interview from Stockholm.



"It's only the sexual predator's imagination that sets the limits. The technology knows no limits. So we have to adapt our mindset to, 'What can a rape be?' We say a rape can be different things. You don't always have to have the textbook case of a physical attack or physical coercion."



Under Swedish law, rape is the most serious form of sexual crime; it does not have to involve intercourse, but does require an act deemed to be as serious a violation of sexual integrity as intercourse.



David Matas, a lawyer and spokesman for Beyond Borders, a Canadian group that fights sexual exploitation of children, said he is aware of no attempt here to charge an internet-only predator with sexual assault, Canada's equivalent of rape.

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[RW]

Wasn't it Sweden that saw a huge rise in rape?  Is it because of its broad definition of rape perhaps?

[Anonymous]

Wasn't it Sweden that saw a huge rise in rape?  Is it because of its broad definition of rape perhaps?

I don't know how many cases like this were classified as rape.

[RW]

Wasn't it Sweden that saw a huge rise in rape?  Is it because of its broad definition of rape perhaps?

I don't know how many cases like this were classified as rape.

I imagine none but they are very inclusive in their definition of rape.

[Anonymous]

At outdoor festivals such as "We Are Stockholm," women have been groped. Public swimming pools have become venues for gangs of young immigrant men to harass women. Malmö has been losing its small Jewish population, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a travel warning due to threats and attacks on Jews from Muslim immigrants.



Most of the women who have been victims of sexual assaults are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants. The problem is in the minority communities in Sweden.

[Anonymous]

At outdoor festivals such as "We Are Stockholm," women have been groped. Public swimming pools have become venues for gangs of young immigrant men to harass women. Malmö has been losing its small Jewish population, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a travel warning due to threats and attacks on Jews from Muslim immigrants.



Most of the women who have been victims of sexual assaults are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants. The problem is in the minority communities in Sweden.

The number of rapes in the Netherlands where my husband's family is from is increasing too.

[Angry White Male]

He "forced" some of these girls to engage in beastiality, which is why I think they are going through with these charges.



It was a little more than just "show me your tits"...