Sunday, October 15, 2006

Finnish sentence

Finland -- Taekwondo instructor Sami Olavi Greus was sentenced in Oulu District Court to four years and three months imprisonment for sex crimes targeting young girls.

The 33-year-old Greus was accused of nearly 800 illegal acts with minors. The court rejected only two of the 22 counts in the indictment.

The acts in question took place between 1997 and 2005 in different parts of the north of Finland. All of the victims practiced martial arts. Some of the girls were aged 14 and 15, but most were aged 16 and 17 when the molestation took place.

The modus operandi was the same with nearly all of the victims. He would first praise their skills and appearance during taekwondo practice, he would drive them to the training sessions himself, and finally he would contact them either by telephone or e-mail, asking the girls to visit him at his home after the lessons.

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