Sweden: Increase in men cleared of rape who say they were sleeping

[Daneman]

So they're giving advice to people how to walk free from rape in sweden: Just claim you were asleep when you did it.

Thanks mohammed.

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel...rtikel=6554295

Cases of men accused of rape being acquitted by the courts after claiming to have been asleep while committing the act have been increasing, according to the Swedish Prosecution Authority.

Swedish Radio examined 18 cases from the past six years in which men accused of rape claimed they had been sleepwalking. Ten of those men were freed, with the principal reason given in five of those cases that the court considered he may have been sleeping.

One of the cases they looked at was of a man who was staying in a house with a friend whom he raped. He was freed after the court ruled he may have been sleepwalking.

Swedish Radio spoke to Dr Carlos Schenck, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota and an expert on sexomnia – sexual acts committed during sleep – who was unimpressed with that decision.

“This person did not fit at all the profile of sexomnia, no past history of sexomnia,” Schenck said. “Really no well documented history of sleep walking. Nothing checks out.”

Research has shown that it is possible for a person to have sex in their sleep, but only for people with specific disorders and it is normally a recurring behaviour.

Dr Schenck said that in three of the other cases he looked at on behalf of Swedish Radio, in his opinion the men had in fact been intoxicated rather than asleep.

[GennGreymane]

Im confused as to why you have two threads on the same subject. Wouldnt this fit into your other thread?

[Daneman]

Im confused as to why you have two threads on the same subject. Wouldnt this fit into your other thread?

No, this is about the courts in Sweden acquitting people on the sole claim that they were asleep. This has nothing to do with the other thread.

[GennGreymane]

No, this is about the courts in Sweden acquitting people on the sole claim that they were asleep. This has nothing to do with the other thread.

Wouldnt that impact rape statistics though? I feel this would be a better sub post within your other thread.

[Daneman]

Wouldnt that impact rape statistics though? I feel this would be a better sub post within your other thread.

No, the other thread is about a victimization survey, this is about courts letting rapists walk free.

[Sunseeker]

Wouldnt that impact rape statistics though? I feel this would be a better sub post within your other thread.

The point is to make more headlines. More headlines means statistically more news about what he wants to talk about is taking up headline space. It's like shouting in a small room. The louder you get the more everyone has to listen to you because they can't hear anything else.

[GennGreymane]

No, the other thread is about a victimization survey, this is about courts letting rapists walk free.

Alright then.

[Daneman]

Are you saying false rape allegations are up, or that sleeping is a crummy alibi? Are you saying people need to establish better alibis for what they are doing while they are sleeping?

Claiming sexsomnia is a crummy alibi. They should conduct tests on the person to establish that they actually have sleeping disorders if they claim to have one. Without an official diagnosis then they should be assumed to be making it up.

[Kalis]

Sleepraping is a thing?

Can you have sleepbankrobbing?

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