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– With regard to our prosecutors, we put experienced prosecutors in these cases, because they are priority cases. We also have special prosecutors who are subject matter specialists working with this particular type of crime, prosecutor Petra Lundh tells Ekkot.
Last year increased the total number of alleged sexual offenses against children that reached the prosecutor’s office by 20 percent compared to the previous year.
In total, around 9,500 suspected cases of child sexual abuse were investigated, and many of them take place online.
Eva Johnsson is Deputy Attorney General of the Public Ministry of Uddevalla and says that more resources are needed, both from the police and the prosecutors:
– You need an IT forensic scientist, because this stuff is often found on phones and computers. We need child questioning leaders, investigators who can conduct these investigations because many times they take a long time, it takes time to identify these girls and boys because most of the time you only have a username and maybe a face if you are lucky.
They have the police over the past two years he has invested in hiring several hundred civilian investigators, including child sexual abuse. But it takes time for an investigator to gain experience, says the prosecutor.
Eva Johnsson has been the head of the preliminary investigation in several large investigations and ensures that these are crimes that cause great suffering to children:
– We have had suicide attempts, self-injurious behavior in the form of cutting. anxiety Depression. We can also see examples of victims who end up in various investigations because you cannot protect yourself from these perpetrators and these are children who grow up with these scars on both the soul and the body.
