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August 1, 2010
Published: 30 Jul 10 11:57 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/28098/20100730/
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A former principal of Sweden's police training college and chief constable of Uppsala County has been jailed for six and a half years for crimes including aggravated rape, pimping and paying for sex.
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And did Spitzer get any jail time?
this Uppsala cop's case is most unfortunate but sh*t does happen. At some point, the prostitution laws in Sweden most be reviewed. It takes two to tango. You can't just prosecute only the person paying for sex whereas the person doing the selling is allowed to walk scout free. The current practice encourages and enboldens prostitution rather than discouraging it.
Think about it this way. If you dropped the 8 counts of paying for sex, would you think better of Lindberg?
I think you wouldn't. It's like charging a man with rape, pimping and making a fool of himself. I really don't get this new law.
If you read the judgement you'll find what a wonderful personality he is.
You'll find out that all the women involved where vulnerable women. Some of which were self harming and therefore committed at various institutions. They sold sex because they were in that situation and because they needed the money. All the cases appear to be that way. Inexperienced unstable women who sold sex because they appeared to have nothing better to do and not counting on ending up with a violent perverted man.
If the anti-prostitution maffia needed arguments, they just got some.
Then you have the 3 convicted men. The sentences make a mockery out of the judicial system here. If it was right to convict then surely the penalty should have been more severe.
The other two were both running their own companies etc, yet the dagsbot was quite low, like 180-280 kr or something.
Does anyone earn that little money these days? A joke.
You can read about it yourself here:
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