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Sex with 10yo not rape, Finnish court rules in migrant’s case
Published time: 5 May, 2018 11:55
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In a case that has triggered public outrage, a top Finnish court has upheld a ruling that sex between an asylum seeker and a 10-year-old girl didn’t constitute rape. Critics are calling for harsher sentences for child abuse.

Finland’s Supreme Court rejected a request from the prosecution to appeal a three-year jail term for a 23-year-old man on Thursday. Finnish media identify him as Juusuf Muhamed Abbudin, an asylum seeker, but don’t reveal his country of origin.

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The man was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse, although the prosecution had sought a harsher sentence on charges of aggravated rape. However, the court left the original verdict unchanged.

The incident took place near the city of Tampere in southern Pirkanmaa region in autumn 2016. The man had sexual intercourse with a girl, who was 10-years old at the time, in the yard of a deserted apartment block. He also exchanged sexually charged messages with her.

Both Pirkanmaa District Court and the Appeal Court in the city of Turku convicted the asylum seeker of aggravated sexual abuse and handed him a three-year prison sentence in 2017. The courts didn’t recognize the incident as rape, saying the girl wasn’t forced into the sexual act or overcome by fear. The judges also ordered the man to pay the child €3,000 ($3,600).

The decision fueled fierce debates across the country. Tuula Tamminen, professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Tampere, insisted that the child simply couldn’t know what was happening in such a situation.

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Back in November 2017, National Coalition Party MP Kari Tolvanen spoke in favor of longer sentences for such offences. “The amendment would introduce harsher sentences for serious sexual offences against children overall. In my view, that is fully justified, for example in light of a child’s vulnerability, even if the act does not meet the threshold for rape,” Tolvanen said.

In March, Finland's Justice Minister Antti Hakkanen also called for tougher laws for sexual offences committed against minors. “Children should be protected from violence and sexual assault by all available means,” the minister stated. “I asked officials for proposals on toughening the law on sex crimes. I regard these proposals as viable and I intend to advance them.”

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that genius wrote: ↑Sun May 06, 2018 7:18 am
the girl wasn’t forced into the sexual act or overcome by fear.

the burden of rape should fall to the person who decides to initiate or comply with the sexual act, 10 yr olds dont have the mental ability to make that decision, and i thought finns would know better than that

that genius wrote:The courts didn’t recognize the incident as rape, saying the girl wasn’t forced into the sexual act or overcome by fear. The judges also ordered the man to pay the child €3,000 ($3,600).

I'd expect to read this exact paragraph in a Cambodian paper, maybe with something added along the lines of, "the policeman was intoxicated and could not resist the kind offer by the 10 year old child".

RT fails to mention that both sexual exploitation of the child and rape carries same length sentence in Finland and you don't get 10y+10y type convictions there. So even if he would have convicted for rape + sex with minor, the sentence time would have still been same.

manslaughter and murder both result in the death of a human being (though may not carry the same sentence, im just using it as an example), but the victims families wld rather the perpetrator be convicted of which?

rape carries a higher stigma, i wld want to bust the ass of a rapist more

Ask a Finn what they do in Finland.
"In summer we go fishing and fuck a lot. In winter we don't go fishing.".

. ....something about inbreeding...

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that genius wrote: ↑Sun May 06, 2018 7:18 amFinnish media identify him as Juusuf Muhamed Abbudin, an asylum seeker, but don’t reveal his country of origin.

Japan.