Thursday, June 23, 2016

Save the Children: Crimes against children takes too long to investigate – Sveriges Radio

According to a new report from Save the Children success of the Public Prosecution fully live up to the requirement to investigate crimes against children within 90 days.

– None of the Public Prosecution succeeds follow the law in full, and crimes vulnerable children have to wait too long, says Maria Schillaci, a psychologist at Save the children, and one of those who worked on the investigation.

the law then violent crime against children investigated promptly. If there is anyone who is reasonably suspected of the crime, the prosecutor must decide on the indictment within three months.

But, according to Save the Children’s latest report – based on statistics from the UK’s public prosecution office from 2015 – so fail authorities often to stick to the time requirement. Although there almost always is a suspect when it comes to violent crimes against children, it takes about a third of the investigations more than 90 days, says Maria Schillaci to echo.

How well the time requirement is complied varies between different parts of the country. In Karlskrona and Jönköping so investigated nearly 90 percent of criminal complaints in time. Elsewhere, as in Örebro and Östersund, then it is only just over half of the cases under investigation within the statutory 90 days.

– It is rättsosäkert and it becomes arbitrary. If it depends on where you live, what kind of help you can get, so it is obviously a problem, says Maria Schillaci at Save the Children.

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