In sweden, its LEGAL to rape an aspie!

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Ok, didn't read that part, he definitely raped her then.

You're right of course. So similar, but now that I looked closer at the details...

It does give one pause though, doesn't it? That there are that many of them, just in Sweden alone that it's easy (at least for me) to confuse some of them.

That alone says something, and I don't think it's good.

Sweden has one of the highest per capita rates of Rape of any country in the world. It's been blamed by some on immigration; the previous fark.com link seems to be a satire of the issue.

I've never heard that Sweden is a bad place for Aspies, in fact there was a thread recently on Reddit that suggested it was the best place in Europe for Aspies, per opinion.

This appears to be a controversial issue, but part of the reason the discussion may have come to light, in the article, is because of the support of rights of individuals with Aspergers in Sweden.

Difficulties in non-verbal communication were mentioned, but the other evidence doesn't appear to be an Asperger specific issue.

If an incident like this had happened in the US, we might not have even heard about it, unless it was actually reported to someone concerned with the rights of individuals with Aspergers. She might have been just another statistic.

The FARK link is not a parody. The link, without fark: http://www.thelocal.se/39842/20120323/

In another big swedish newspaper, google translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?s ... 944965.svd

But i dont see the relevance.

Did someone say it was a parody? I don't think so. It's just a different case. I posted it thinking it was the same one.

What's relevant is that while looking for more links related to the case you first brought up in your OP, I bumped into quite a few, all from Sweden, very similar. Most about supposedly sleeping men having sex with sleeping women, but some others more similar to what you're talking about.

What's relevant is that so many of them clearly point to a lackadaisical attitude toward rape in general in the Swedish judicial system, especially if the woman is disabled or incapacitated.

It seems the problem is much bigger than just viewing it okay to rape Autistic women. It looks to me as if they look for any excuse at all for rape of any woman, for whatever ridiculous reason they can come up with.

Here is the link on the Fark.com site I was referring to:

http://www.fark.com/comments/7012089

The link was at the top of the page, of the site with the text of the serious article.

It has a caption beside it that says "unlikely", and is titled "Apparently it's so easy to rape a women in Sweden that you can do it in your sleep".

It appears that it is a link to a satirical/joke commentary, on the general problem with rape in Sweden, specific to the article on the page that is serious.

The rape problem in Sweden is a highly publicized issue; the commentary is from Sweden, so I suspect that is a relevant issue to the commentary, that is not explicitly stated.

Relevant to the topic at hand, because there are problems with rape in Sweden beyond the issue of Aspergers.

The immigration issue appears to be the most often discussed issue in regard to rape in Sweden, but I've seen that argument refuted, by statistical evidence.

This topic, with articles related to rape and the girl diagnosed as having Aspergers and the sleep justification for rape, is the first evidence that I have seen that the judicial system in Sweden may not provide appropriate support for the rights of rape victims, in general.

I did a quick search and found very recent research that shows that rape acquittals in Sweden have increased from 22 percent in 2006 to 33 percent in 2010. According to the research, recent rulings in the Swedish Supreme Court have set a precedent that there is now a standard for supporting evidence in lower court rulings.

This, research, in part, may explain why the rape case for the young girl with aspergers was successfully appealed. The supporting evidence as indicated in the topic article was found to be insufficient in the appeal. The precedent for that ruling was already set by previous Supreme Court decisions.

The research provides evidence that part of the problem in Sweden with rape, may be associated with the way the Judicial system works there.

http://www.thelocal.se/39886/20120326/



Those are amazing statistics: 4134 rapes reported, 313 indictments brought to trial, a 33 percent acquittal rate, and 206 convictions that stand.

So per data from 2010, for every 100 rapes reported in Sweden, only 5 result in convictions.

Wow that's effed up. Still I often wonder how many cases similar to this go unreported in this country.

I thought this may be of interest in that it's first case of a "sleepwalking" defence being successfully challenged in a British court:



Obviously the police and others have cottoned on to defendants trying to use this as an excuse to avoid being punished for their crime.

He won't serve six years, though, oh no. I bet he'll be out in four.

I guess this gives a new meaning to the concept of the vikings rapeing piliaging and plundering

I read it, and it was pretty bad!

Meanwhile they're going after Assange. With Sweden's sorry record on rape makes it even more clear that their pursuit of Assange is political and political only.

That's because people get upset over a legal outcome and completely spin what it means. That ticks me off really bad, but that's how you end up with people saying stuff like "It's legal to murder your child in Florida" (Casey Anthony) or some crap like that.

Too many people actually believe that the justice system is supposed to be 1. infallible, 2. fair, 3. accurate.

I lived in Sweden from 1994 until 1999, a little town called Falkenberg near Gothenberg.
The Swedes are a very shy people and seem to have a problem with expressing themselves, they also have one of the worst suicide rates in the world.
Rape was a big problem when I lived there also, the people don’t seem to have the balls to speak up and say what’s wrong, it’s sad.

Rape is illegal in Sweden, regardless of the mental state of the victim.

Ew....that is so sick!

What the fudgebunny? Why would it be legal to rape someone with a disability or a mental illness?????????? Is it because the Swedish government believes that they have no feelings? This is horrible.

its a legal technicality concerning concent,not an intentional indorsment of raping developmentaly disabled people.like in the US when someone who is clearly guilty walks on legal technicality.i would not interperate this a pre meditated bigotry towards people with developmental differences