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The sentence is all too common in cases where children have been victims of repeated sexual offenses, said prosecutor Petra Lundh and appealed against a Skane man. According to her, Supreme Court (HD) advice is insufficient in such cases.

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The district court sentenced the man to eleven years in prison for exposing a girl as a result of repeated acts of rape. The Skåne and Blekinge Court of Appeal, however, limited the sentence to nine years' imprisonment, although it was considered that more rapes were proven. According to a conservative assessment, the girl was raped a hundred times, according to the hearing.

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The maximum penalty for serious rape against a child is a ten-year prison sentence and, in the case of repeated offenses, a four-year prison sentence. And that is the maximum sentence of 14 years that, according to the Prosecutor, should be condemned in the appeal against Skånefallet.

– Somehow, one must also test the number of actions that one can engage without breaking the roof, Petra Lundh told TT at the end of October.

She develops the reasoning in her call:

"In this case, the case of an extremely serious crime, where the punishment of each act exceeds the minimum penalty, I think that the court in charge of the criminal assessment can conclude that the general difficulty of the crime is such that she deserves the maximum punishable punishment. "

Only the question of penalty

The trial has now been granted by the Supreme Court, which will only decide on the sentence. Debt and damages, which are also the subject of an appeal by the convicted, are therefore not determined by HD.

– If the accused only appealed the sentence, HD, according to criminal law, can not judge a harsher sentence, but as the prosecutor and the accused appealed, there now has a tension for us at a time, "said Janina Kastevik, Attorney General of the High Court.

Now, a new negotiation or presentation of the rape target is pending. Kastevik believes that an HD decision can take a few months.

TT