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 Six men on trial for trafficking Lithuanian women to Sweden and selling them for sex were sentenced to prison on Tuesday for running an elaborate trafficking and pimping operation estimated to have generated one million kronor ($141,000) in only ten months. https://www.thelocal.se/20120613/41412 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:20:00 +0200 41412 A high-ranking local politician from western Sweden, currently facing charges for buying sex, was found to have made thousands of visits to numerous pornographic websites from his office computer. https://www.thelocal.se/20111122/37498 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:34:00 +0100 37498 The court of appeal in Malmö (Hovrätten) has overturned guilty verdicts served to two men in connection with the sale of a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex, reducing a third man's sentence for pimping. https://www.thelocal.se/20110218/32134 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:41:00 +0100 32134 A 36-year-old man was sentenced to four months in prison for threatening a prosecutor who had charged his son for involvement in selling a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex. https://www.thelocal.se/20101126/30448 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:15:00 +0100 30448 A court in Malmö in southern Sweden sentenced several men to prison on Tuesday for their role in selling a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex. https://www.thelocal.se/20101102/29976 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:09:00 +0100 29976 A man and woman have been arrested for making threats in connection with a pimping trial underway in Malmö involving a 14-year-old girl https://www.thelocal.se/20101011/29538 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:13:00 +0200 29538 The presiding judge in the Malmö district court trial of ten men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex, has been forced to withdraw due to threats against her and her family. https://www.thelocal.se/20100928/29296 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:54:00 +0200 29296 The trial of ten men 10 men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex opened in Malmö district court on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20100927/29266 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:04:00 +0200 29266 Charges were filed on Wednesday in Malmö against 10 men suspected of having sold a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex. https://www.thelocal.se/20100915/29016 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:13:00 +0200 29016 A 17-year-old girl from Malmö in southern Sweden has been convicted for selling the sexual services of a 14-year-old mentally disabled girl. The 20-year-old man suspected of masterminding the pimping operation was acquitted. https://www.thelocal.se/20100104/24190 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:57:00 +0100 24190 Three young people have been indicted in Malmö on pimping charges for repeatedly selling the sexual services of a 14-year-old girl with a mild mental disability. https://www.thelocal.se/20091116/23290 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:23:00 +0100 23290 The 40-year-old ''mastermind behind a Swedish teen sex ring has been sentenced to four years in jail on charges of aggravated pimping offences. https://www.thelocal.se/20090928/22344 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:22:00 +0200 22344 A 35-year-old bartender has been sentenced to imprisonment for the pimping of 118 Swedish women for sex buyers in Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20090406/18698 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:21:00 +0200 18698 The suspected mastermind of a Swedish teen sex ring hid under a blanket as he entered a Stockholm-area court room on Friday for the first day of his closed-door trial for pimping and a range of other related sex-crimes. https://www.thelocal.se/20090327/18504 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:58:00 +0100 18504 A Swedish "Cyberpimp" is currently on trial at Stockholm district court, facing accusations that he sold at least 15 young women for sex. https://www.thelocal.se/20081209/16232 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:35:00 +0100 16232 Swedish tax authorities have written letters to 340 strippers, some of whom still live with their parents, giving the women a one-time chance to pay back taxes owed on income they earned from dancing. https://www.thelocal.se/20080408/10978 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:31:00 +0200 10978 A 48-year-old German man has been arrested in southern Sweden on suspicion of involvement in a major prostitution ring in Berlin. The man was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Germany. https://www.thelocal.se/20080129/9813 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:51:00 +0100 9813