Thousands chatting on mobile phone – Vestmanlands County Newspaper

It all started in 2013 by a mother reported to the police things her eleven year old suffered the chat Kik. Short later, a father in another part of the country the police.

But in 2013 consisted police still 21 agencies and it took time before coupled notifications. Only when a third notification was made in January 2014 discovered that they coincide in Kik account.

found via IM account

The police managed to link the chat account Kik from which sex offenses against children committed with a specific cell phone. The phone was connected to a now 22-year-old man in the Stockholm area.

Early one April morning in 2014, the police went into the 22-year-old’s home to collect evidence and proof. When they came in was 22-year-old in bed. He grabbed for his cell phone on the bedside table.

– This mobile phone came to have a considerable bearing on the matter. It is the mobile phone which will allow us to sit here for 55 days, says Thomas Mattson during the trial first day in Attunda District Court on Thursday.

Will the giant investigation

With the mobile phone confiscated swelled the matter to a giant investigation.

– We’ll find thousands chatting in this phone. Several sexual content, says Thomas Mattsson.

Even before the man managed to identify the 96 children who are plaintiffs stood clear that they were all very young. Now we know that the youngest was five years old and the oldest 14. Tomas Mattsson says that the majority have been ten or eleven years significantly younger than in previous, similar cases.

Feel accomplices

The question many are asking is how 22-year-old could get as little children to send naked pictures in the most serious cases, even get them to commit abuses themselves.

Unlike in previous cases, 22-year-old is not threatened children. Instead, he made use of flattery. And when he asked for pictures he has always begun discreetly.

– Since there has been a spike in the image material, what to do, says Tomas Mattsson.

The counsel’s Charlotte Nordstrom representing eleven of the children say that the approach allows children to feel more shame and guilt over the abuse where the perpetrator himself physically assaulted against them.

– Here children have been encouraged to participate, and do things to themselves that they may not want. They feel accomplices, she says.

The 22-year-old has admitted the documents themselves but have views on how the offense is grouped.