Swedish schools kept convicted rapists alongside their victims
Swedish schools allowed at least eight students to remain alongside classmates they had been convicted of raping, a new investigation has found. The cases span the past six years.
The investigation by P3 Nyheter, published on Tuesday, describes what happened to pupils’ school lives after convictions. The count establishes repeated cases, rather than how common the problem is across all schools.
One student, identified as “Saga”, says her attacker remained at their upper-secondary school for a year after his conviction. She isolated herself because she feared encountering him.
Her former principal, Andreas Berntsen, told the programme that the school had tried to provide individually tailored measures to keep her safe. P3 says it sought comment from the convicted student, who did not respond.
In a separate case, a former principal said the school had not understood that a student felt unsafe while a police investigation was continuing. The investigation distinguishes that allegation-stage case from students whose attackers had already been convicted.
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