https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A father in northern Sweden has been fined 3,000 kronor and forced to pay thousands of kronor in restitution to his own son for forcing the young boy to shovel snow barefoot. https://www.thelocal.se/20190201/dad-fined-for-forcing-son-to-shovel-snow-with-no-shoes-sweden Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:13:23 +0100 dad-fined-for-forcing-son-to-shovel-snow-with-no-shoes-sweden The 41-year-old Swedish man who was the first in the country to be sentenced to jail for online rape will appeal the court’s decision, his lawyer said. https://www.thelocal.se/20171203/swede-to-appeal-online-rape-conviction-lawyer Sun, 03 Dec 2017 17:23:59 +0100 swede-to-appeal-online-rape-conviction-lawyer A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced a man to 10 years in jail for raping and sexually assaulting 27 children by forcing them to carry out sexual acts on themselves or others online. https://www.thelocal.se/20171201/swede-convicted-of-online-rape-of-children-from-us-canada-and-scotland Fri, 01 Dec 2017 08:39:08 +0100 swede-convicted-of-online-rape-of-children-from-us-canada-and-scotland The organizers of Sweden's official Twitter account have revealed that its curators have received an increased amount of racist and sexist abuse in recent months, with the closure of the account as a result a possible outcome should the pattern continue. https://www.thelocal.se/20161006/swedens-official-twitter-account-targeted-by-racist-and-sexist-trolls Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:53:08 +0200 swedens-official-twitter-account-targeted-by-racist-and-sexist-trolls Senior research assistant Jens Lindberg and senior lecturer Stefan Sjöström from the University of Umeå's department of social work explain why male rape should be taken more seriously. https://www.thelocal.se/20160906/male-rape-should-be-taken-more-seriously Tue, 06 Sep 2016 08:59:00 +0200 male-rape-should-be-taken-more-seriously The Church of Sweden is not taking the problem of sexual abuse seriously enough, wrote two clergy members in Sunday’s Svenska Dagbladet. Cases of priests resuming pastoral duties after abusing children show church policy needs an overhaul, they said. https://www.thelocal.se/20150405/church-needs-new-sex-abuse-policy-clergy Sun, 05 Apr 2015 15:51:29 +0200 church-needs-new-sex-abuse-policy-clergy An appeal gets underway on Monday in the case of 8-year-old Yara Alnajjar, a girl from Gaza who was beaten to death in Sweden last year. A female guardian was charged with murder while the girl’s uncle received a lesser sentence. https://www.thelocal.se/20150329/new-trial-to-start-in-8-year-olds-death Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:38:49 +0200 new-trial-to-start-in-8-year-olds-death Sweden Democrat MP Anna Hagwall has been censured by the party after saying that women should "stop whining" about domestic violence and that they shoulder the responsibility to end the abuse. https://www.thelocal.se/20140716/sweden-democrat-battered-women-should-stop-whining Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:55:00 +0200 sweden-democrat-battered-women-should-stop-whining Domestic violence increases in the summer months in Sweden, a fresh statistics report shows, while new proposals for tackling the broader problem have been slated by a national women's group. https://www.thelocal.se/20140715/summer-sees-increase-in-domestic-violence Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:48:00 +0200 summer-sees-increase-in-domestic-violence Men in Sweden are at least as, if not more, likely than women to be victims of domestic violence, according to researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg, who also found that women nevertheless suffer more adverse health effects. https://www.thelocal.se/20131008/50656 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:18:00 +0200 50656 Young seasonal workers hired to scare people in the haunted house at Stockholm's Gröna Lund amusement park have told their own horror stories of beatings and groping by visitors to the popular theme park. https://www.thelocal.se/20130426/47564 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:03:00 +0200 47564 Swedish prosecutors have charged a Swedish man for assault after he reportedly spat and punched a woman when she told him not to abuse his French Bulldog puppy, whom he had lifted into the air by tugging on its leash. https://www.thelocal.se/20130215/46214 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:59:00 +0100 46214 Sweden is set to split two siblings from their younger sister as they are deported to Serbia along with their mother who left them in such a state of neglect that child services intervened in 2009. https://www.thelocal.se/20130122/45758 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:31:00 +0100 45758 Swedish driving instructors will have to study etiquette rules after revelations that one in seven young female students felt their teacher had sexually harassed them. https://www.thelocal.se/20130118/45682 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:50:00 +0100 45682 Police break the rules in taking too long to investigate sexual and violent abuse against children in Sweden, a review by the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper shows. https://www.thelocal.se/20130107/45458 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:27:00 +0100 45458 Sweden should extend the statute of limitations for child sex abuse crimes and make it easier to require criminal background checks on people who work with children, according to an inquiry submitted to the justice minister on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20121115/44446 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:11:00 +0100 44446 A 31-year-old mother of four has been charged by a Gothenburg court after whipping, tying up and burning her children with a heated knife, according to local police. https://www.thelocal.se/20121109/44334 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:43:00 +0100 44334 Internet abuse cases are steadily increasing in Sweden, according to fresh figures from Sweden's National Council on Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet – Brå). https://www.thelocal.se/20120820/42720 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:13:00 +0200 42720 One of Sweden’s top chiefs of police has been charged with beating his 14-year-old daughter, after he caught her and her friends drinking during a party, according to a report in daily Aftonbladet. https://www.thelocal.se/20120815/42638 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:47:00 +0200 42638 The 42-year-old Malmö resident under suspicion of the killing of his 33-year-old wife after he was found trying to stow her lifeless body into a van has admitted to causing her death, but claims that it wasn't murder. https://www.thelocal.se/20120720/42148 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:50:00 +0200 42148