http://www.kristianstadsbladet.se/h...ill-pojkes-kropp-kidnappare-slipper-fangelse/ (article in Swedish)
Connected starter cables to boy's body - kidnapper escapes prison
HÄSSLEHOLM Friday 13.32 , updated Friday 15.32
The three young men hit, kicked and burned the boy with a cigarette. They also connected starter cables to his body. The district court nevertheless judges the abuse as normal and does not sentence the prison sentence.
Photo: Police
Three young men took the 15-year-old boy in a car and drove to a solitary place in the woods. There, they subjected him to an extended and torture-like treatment, according to prosecutor Helena Fredriksson.
She wanted to see the men convicted of, among other things, gross abuse, abuse of justice and illegal detention.
The district court did not share the view that it was gross abuse.
"In assessing all the circumstances of the case, the district court considers that the abuse was serious because of the circumstances, but that it does not reach the limit of serious crime," writes the district court in the judgment, which was announced on Friday.
The youngest of the perpetrators, a 17-year-old, is sentenced to illegal detention and abuse of the normal degree to youth service for 140 hours. The total penalty value is imprisonment for one year and four months, but taking into account the youth reduction only five months. However, special reasons are required for sentencing to prison since he is under 18 years of age.
One of the other men - a 19-year-old who was 18 when the incident happened in March - is convicted of unlawful detention, abuse of the normal degree and abuse of court case. The district court finds that the total penalty value of the crime amounts to one year and six months in prison. Considering the age, the penalties value amounts to imprisonment for nine months. But the district court believes that the sanction that best contributes to the man refraining from continuing crime is the supervision of community service, 200 hours. The alternative sentence is imprisonment for nine months.
The third man, an 18-year-old, is convicted of assault and unlawful detention. The district court here reason in a similar way with regard to the penalty. The total criminal value of the crime amounts to one year and four months in prison. In view of the young age, the penalties value amounts to imprisonment for eight months. He, on the other hand, is sentenced to protection supervision with community service.
All men have been unpunished since before.
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