A Swedish court of appeal has acquitted a man convicted of raping a ten-year-old girl because the girl used a childish term for vagina during her testimony, claiming the meaning of the word was unclear.
on the ruling, saying the case should be taken to a high court: ” I think it would be extremely valuable and almost necessary for the prosecutor general to try to get the case to the Supreme Court.”
But Court of Appeal judge Åke Thimfors, who was one of the judges in the appeal case, defended the ruling, saying: “It wasn’t possible for us to ask her any follow-up questions about what she had experienced.” Thimfors was also questioned on whether he understood the outrage over the verdict, but sneered that the court has “careful deliberations.”
“We go through the evidence so carefully. We understand that it is important, not only for the victim but also for the perpetrator. There is a lot at stake,” he claimed.he had ever read and questioning why the court had consulted a dictionary rather than asking the victim what the word meant. He claimed that perhaps because the word “snippa” as a term for female genitalia is relatively new and that the average age of the judges was over 60, they may have not known its meaning, but added that other testimony made it more clear the child had been raped.
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