He only received three years in prison as well.
On September 1, 2024, then-16-year-old Meya Åberg was walking home from her shift at McDonald's when she passed through a pedestrian tunnel in Skellefteå, small city of about 40,000 on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Despite her remote location in northern Europe, she ran across an 18-year-old Muslim man from Africa in that tunnel. Yazied Hamed Mohamed decided to repay the country that accepted him as a refugee by raping Meya.
He took her phone and began to assault her, but as he held her, she eventually managed to break free and run away.
Her family reported the rape immediately. A few days later, she returned to school, but guess who she saw there?
But on the first day she was back, she caught sight of the African, named Yazied Mohamed and hailing from Eritrea, as he stood at a pool table by the school cafeteria.
'I had a panic attack, ran away and locked myself in a toilet.'
Despite reporting that Mohamed was the rapist, police initially did not take action. Meya continued to see her attacker around town, including at work and at school, so she stopped attending school altogether.
When Mohamed was eventually arrested, he was acquitted by a judge for lack of evidence. The prosecutor, however, filed an appeal, which led to the man being sentenced to a measly three years in prison, along with $25,000 in damages to Meya and her family (there's no indication he has the funds to ever pay that amount).
The prosecutor also asked that he be deported on the basic, common-sense ground that countries should deport foreigners who rape girls.
The court said no.
Yazied Mohamed is a citizen of Eritrea and the prosecutor demanded that he be deported. However, the Court of Appeal notes that the 19-year-old has refugee status. In order to deport him, it is therefore required by law that the act he has committed 'constitutes an extremely serious crime and it would entail a serious danger to public order and security to let him remain in Sweden.'
The rape of 16-year-old Meya is not a serious enough crime to justify deportation, states the Court of Appeal, which refers, among other things, to the 'duration' of the rape in its assessment.
That's not sensationalist. That's a factual assessment of what the court actually said.
In the Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland's own words:
Rape is therefore in many cases to be regarded as such an extremely serious crime that can lead to a refugee being deported, but an assessment must be made of all the circumstances of the individual case. Taking into account the nature and duration of the act in question, the Court of Appeal finds that the crime is indeed serious, but that there was no question of such an extremely serious crime that could lead to a decision on the expulsion of Yazied Mohamed. The deportation request must therefore be rejected.
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