A group of eight immigrants suspected of brutally raping and sexually assaulting schoolgirls over a prolonged period of time have been arrested in the Finnish town of Oulu. According to the police all the men came to Finland as asylum seekers or refugees, some from the Middle East, national broadcaster Yle reported.
The alleged abusers are aged 18-40, whereas their victims were all aged under 15, with the youngest only 10 years of age. At least some of those detained have already received Finnish citizenship.
"We are talking about a period several months", police commissioner Markus Kiiskinen told the newspaper Kaleva. "The suspected crimes are extremely violent and are exceptionally high-level", Kiiskinen added.
Oulu deputy police chief Arto Karnaranta admitted that he has never seen anything similar in his nearly 38-year-long career as a police officer.
Comment: While harsher sentences are an encouraging sign that the government is taking the issue seriously, clearly, since most of the criminals were migrants, there's also the the glaring issue of how uncontrolled mass migration contributed. Because similarly horrific cases have been reported in pretty much every European country since the migrant crisis began.
Finally, as has been exposed with other child rape ring cases around the world, often those at the lower levels were trafficking children to those in positions of influence and government, and so it remains to be seen whether they were operating:
- Telford, UK: 18-month investigation reveals massive child grooming ring; hundreds of girls sold for sex
- Dutroux: High-level Belgian pedophile ring ignored
- Victim's testimony provides evidence of US child trafficking ring linked to elite network
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