{"id":194621,"date":"2019-09-11T05:31:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194621"},"modified":"2019-09-14T05:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T05:35:52","slug":"stockholm-sees-alarming-20-increase-in-rapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194621","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm Sees \u2018Alarming\u2019 20% Increase in Rapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sputnik \u2013 Sept 10, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Swedish-rape-stats-and-immigration-figures over the years. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

An average of five rapes per day occurs in the Swedish capital, while only 5 percent of reported rapes results in a perpetrator being sentenced, a development local politicians have described as \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the first half of 2019, Stockholm has seen a total of 1,060 rapes. Compared with 890 rapes in the same period last year, this marks a drastic 20 percent increase.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, 24 so-called \u201cnegligent rapes<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d were reported during the first half of the year. This is a recent addition to Sweden\u2019s criminal code that appeared after a so-called \u201cconsent act<\/a>\u201d was introduced on 1 July 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the news outlet Mitt i<\/em>, Stockholm sees an average of five rapes a day, many of them making attention-grabbing headlines, such as the group rape in H\u00e4sselby.<\/span><\/p>\n

The situation is so bad that the S\u00f6dersjukhuset hospital had to set up a special emergency department for raped women. About 800 victims are treated each year there.<\/span><\/p>\n

The region\u2019s financial council Irene Svenonoius of the liberal-conservative Moderate Party has called this development unacceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI look extremely seriously at all the rapes. The increase is alarming\u201d, Svenonius told Mitt i<\/em>. \u201cWe know that the number of rape victims is significantly higher\u201d, she added, calling for \u201cstrong and concerted efforts\u201d to solve the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

An unknown number of rapes remains unreported and unpunished. According to S\u00f6dersjukhuset, only six in ten rape victims choose to report the assault to the police.<\/span><\/p>\n

In many cases, the daily Dagens Nyheter<\/em> reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a> earlier in August, sexual assaults are not classified as rape but as other crimes, such as unlawful threats or unlawful coercion, especially if the woman managed to escape.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis can be at least as traumatic as a rape\u201d, Anna M\u00f6ller of S\u00f6dersjukhuset told the newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the recent development, the Moderates are in favour of a higher police presence and harsher penalties to stem the growing number of rapes, Elisabeth Svantesson, Moderates\u2019 fiscal policy spokesperson, said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not the only way to go, but it is important to highlight the seriousness of the crime. We must treat the perpetrators with hard gloves and ensure that rape actually leads to prosecution\u201d, Svantesson said.<\/span><\/p>\n

At present, only five in a hundred reported rapes result in sentencing, national broadcaster SVT <\/em>reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a> earlier this year. Meanwhile, the number of reported rapes<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>has risen from about 4,000 per year to over 5,000 over the past decade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That increase is just in one year. At present, the rape rate in the land once associated with liberated attitudes to sex is 500% higher than forty years ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-sexual-abuse","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194633,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194621\/revisions\/194633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}