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The municipal official forced the girl to send him rude sex videos.
When the blackmail made her want to take her own life, he replied, “Blabla.”
He is now on trial for crimes against eight vulnerable girls, and the entanglement may be much greater than that.
– Had contact with 700 people on Instagram, says survey leader Eva Johnsson.
On September 29, 2019, the police in a city in central Sweden received a report of sexual exploitation of children. A perpetrator had under the pseudonym “David Seger” for a threat that caused a 15-year-old girl to pose and record herself while performing sexual acts over the Internet. The complainant was a friend of the girl, with whom the man also contacted.
David, who said he was 18, had started talking to the girl through the Snapchat app and was friendly at first. After a week, he changed his tone and asked for photos in which he posed sexually. After a few weeks of nagging, he had given up. When she sent the first photos, he threatened to release them if she did not continue, and now demanded more serious sexual acts. Among other things, he forced her to put a makeup brush on her abdomen and put her hands down her throat to vomit.
According to questioning of the girl’s mother, she has ADHD, autism, motor clumsiness and a language disorder. The man had sent him several photographs of her genitals, as well as photographs of another girl who appeared to have inserted a brush into her genitals.
I tried to block
When the girl tried to block the man on Snapchat, he appeared on the Instagram photo app and forced her there to unblock him, otherwise she would start sending the images to people. He also threatened to edit fake nude photos and videos and spread them under his name.
During questioning, the girl says she reported him about 30 times on Snapchat and even more times on Instagram.
In a message from David that emerged from the investigation, he wrote to the girl on Instagram on September 29, 2019: “I don’t want to ruin your life if I don’t have to. I’ll give you until (at) 12.”
A Snapchat message shows the same type of threat:
“Get in touch when you’re home and you will know what to do. Do you understand?”
When she did not respond, the perpetrator said he had posted some of her images or movie clips online. He sent several messages with no response:
“How does it feel that so many people have seen you do that?”
“Hahaha people are laughing at you.”
“They make fun of your body.”
Tracked the address
The previous days he had threatened her. If she reported him, it would only delete her social media accounts. “Your photos will remain but there will be nothing for the police to search.” he had written to the man.
In December 2020, the girl tried to kill herself. When he previously wrote to the man that “You’re trying to make me want to die” had replied: “BLA bla”.
But the account could be traced. Immediately after the report, the police approached the girl and secured the Snapchat conversations before they disappeared from the application, which is based on images and messages that are quickly deleted. Police IT technicians received help from social media and were able to link messages to a private address in a central Swedish municipality. There lived a municipal official in his 40s with his family. In addition to his job, he has been active in his son’s sports club.
– She has a partner, three children and has worked in a municipality. Outwardly, he has had a completely normal life. No one has a clue what we came up with, says police investigation leader Eva Johnsson.
Eight plaintiffs
His computer and two phones were confiscated. Photographs and videos of more girls were found in them, which the police were able to identify and who could be contacted.
On January 15, he was charged with aggravated exploitation of minors for sexual behavior, aggravated illicit coercion and assault in court, as he threatened to release photographs and videos of the girls if they reported him to the police. He was also charged with aggravated rape, alternatively incitement, or complicity in the rape and aggravated rape.
The trial, which began Monday, has eight plaintiffs. They have similar stories to tell, and they were between the ages of 11 and 17 when the abuse occurred.
– It seems more or less the same, then it varies as to how long you’ve built a relationship, says Eva Johnsson.
– Some contacts have been brief and intense, others for a long time. But he has established contact with them in different ways. And the severity of the things that the different plaintiffs have been allowed to do also varies among them.
Vulnerable girls
The man, among other things, asked several of the girls to lick the toilet seat.
– The details are very unique for this investigation. I’ve been working with this for several years and it’s quite unusual, says Eva Johnsson.
– Just this with so many different types of offensive items and items and so as it is at this it makes this case stand out a bit.
According to Eva Johnsson, all the plaintiffs in one way or another have been more vulnerable.
– What they have in common is that they have different forms of self-injurious behavior, anxiety problems, different functional variations, both physical and neuropsychiatric, that an Aspberger or autism can have. There are girls who are in HVB homes or girls from LVU who are very isolated, he says.
700 contacts
And police suspect the eight girls in the case may only be the tip of the iceberg.
– When we check his Instagram account we can see that he had more than 700 contacts of which 680 are the ones he follows and when we check them there are many young girls there, if you look at names and profile photos and so on. says Eva Johnsson.
– We have found two of our plaintiffs in that flow. So it is clear that it is not uncommon for these types of bullies to prosecute many types of girls.
Eva Johnsson hopes that the trial can make other vulnerable girls dare to tell about it. At the same time, the police continue to analyze the material on the man’s computer.
– We have several movies and various usernames, but if you don’t have a username that is specific enough, if your name is Anna Bengtsson, for example, then there are many and then it is very difficult for us. to find out which one is Anna, he says.
– We know that there are more applicants but we do not know who they are, but it may happen that they make themselves known.
Forced to drink urine
The last day of the extended trial is scheduled for February 25. According to Eva Johnsson, the man in court has already admitted three charges related to a girl who was 11 years old when the abuse occurred. Among other things, he is suspected of forcing her to lick the toilet seat and drink urine. According to Eva Johnsson, only these points could justify a prison sentence of “several years”.
“We have that in the movie, so the state of the evidence looks pretty good,” he says.
Aftonbladet has sought out the man’s lawyer.
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