Last Updated on September 1, 2019
A 12-year-old girl who was so brutally raped she bled from her ‘abdomen’ after being groomed on Snapchat has seen her rapist avoid jail.
Mikael Shaba, 17, groomed his victim on the picture sharing social media site.
On June 21st, 2018, Shaba lured his victim to his basement where he carried out the vicious attack.
The victim is said to have bled from her “abdomen” and suffered several bruises around her body.
When talking with the police, the 12-year-old victim stated that Shaba came “from another country” but she couldn’t recall his nationality.
Initially, the girl didn’t report the sexual attack.
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The victim’s older brother overhead Shaba boasting and joking about the rape to his friends. After this, he told his mother who later called the police.
Shaba denies the rape, claiming that the victim and her friend–who was present–are fabricating their claim in order to sully his reputation.
Since the rape, the victim has begun to lose her hair due to psychological problems which have arisen out of the incident.
According to Swedish site, Samnytt:
The court finds that the crime has a penalty value of two years in prison, which is the minimum penalty for rape against children where the sentence scale runs from 2 to 6 years in prison. However, because of Mikael Shaba’s young age, the court considers that he should not be sentenced to prison at all, nor to closed youth care.
The court also reasoned that Mikael Shaba should be given a 50 percent discount on the number of hours of youth service he is to be sentenced and therefore decide on 50 hours instead of 100. The reason for the reduction is that it should be considered part of the penalty that Mikael Shaba must participate in a call program according to an established “youth contract”. Specifically, according to the annex to the judgment, this consists in his having to talk to a social assistant for 45 minutes about violence on 15 occasions.
Mikael Shaba has previously been convicted of unlawful driving.
The little girl has suffered so much mental distress from the attack that she now has started to loose her hair.
Friends of the rapist have been calling her foul names.
And the rapist got off with only 50 hours of community service.
50 hours.
I have no words.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) August 29, 2019
The rapist was handed a light sentence of fifty hours “youth service”.
Sweden’s soft approach in punishing sex crimes has been criticized by many.
Shaba and his friends are also accused of verbally harassing the victim after the rape, in some instances calling her a ‘whore.’
On Monday, National File published an article about a woman who was being charged for attempted murder after stabbing her rapist.
