Have you ever heard something so absurd that your brain just… blue screens?
That’s me right now, reading that a court literally said a rape “did not last long enough.” Like there’s a timer somewhere that decides when a crime officially becomes tragic.
In Sweden, an 18-year-old Eritrean refugee named Yazied Mohamed was convicted of raping 16-year-old Meya Åberg while she was walking home from her McDonald’s shift after missing the bus.
The attack happened in a tunnel—yeah, a literal horror-movie setup for the poor girl, and the family reported it immediately. Mohamed got three years in prison. But the Alto Norrland Court of Appeals said the assault “did not last long enough” to qualify as an “exceptionally serious crime.”
The court thinks something like a sexual assault is not a serious crime in 2025….
Because under Sweden’s interpretation of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, refugees can only be deported for extremely serious crimes or if they’re a threat to public order.
So apparently, duration is now a factor in morality. The court basically said, “Sure, it was bad, but not bad-bad.”
This decision has Sweden fuming, with politicians and citizens alike asking how “not long enough” became a legitimate legal defense in 2025.
You see, people forget that laws are there to maintain peace, protect people, not excuse Mohammed with anything he wants.
This is like we know it’s a serious crime and the guy needs to be punished, deported, because it’s common sense, but the law says the crime is not too severe to actually deport him.
I know the judges weren’t defending the act. They were just doing their duty according to the books, but it’s like watching someone rearrange chairs on a sinking Titanic because the manual says so.
What happens when we know it’s wrong but the law says it’s not?
We end up pretending the system’s broken when it’s actually functioning exactly as designed, which is somehow worse.
No elected politician has the balls to change these outdated laws, and the cycle of suffering continues.
THE WHY: COWARDICE
5/5 of this one because somewhere, some idiot thought a stopwatch could measure trauma and decide it’s worth punishing or not.
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