Finnish man sentenced to nearly 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting 28 underage girls
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A 32-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to nine years and six months in prison for sexually assaulting and harassing 28 underage girls, reported Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat on Tuesday.
The crimes took place from 2007 to 2015. The victims were minors who were under the age of 16.
The Helsinki District Court said the defendant had asked the girls to show their intimate body parts to him online and performed sexual acts in front of the computer camera.
He contacted some of the girls and met six of them. He had sex with the six girls several times.
Furthermore, the offender was found guilty of spreading pornographic pictures on the Internet.
In addition to the imprisonment, the offender was ordered to pay a total of 98,400 euros (106,200 U.S. dollars) to the victims.
The man was arrested in April 2015, and has been detained ever since, said the daily.
Last week, the Finnish police revealed that sex-related crimes increased by 12.6 percent and child sexual abuse cases had increased by 10 percent in Finland in 2016.
Teija Koskenmaki-Karaharju, detective chief inspector at the Helsinki Police Department, told Finnish media earlier that such cases were growing all the time and victims were getting younger. Not only girls, but also boys suffer from online sexual abuse. Endit