In what can only be described as a gut-wrenching collapse of legal and moral sanity, a Swedish court has ruled that the brutal rape of 16-year-old Meya Åberg was not “exceptionally serious” enough to deport her attacker—a refugee from Eritrea—because the assault didn’t last long enough. Read that again. We’ll wait.

Yazied Mohamed, 18, was sentenced to three years for raping Meya as she walked home from a late shift at McDonald’s. She reported the attack immediately. The evidence was solid. The trauma, real. The sentence? Insulting. The deportation? Denied—on the basis that the “duration” of the rape failed to meet the court’s absurd benchmark for “exceptional seriousness.”

🧠 Bureaucratic Lunacy Dressed as Legal Logic

This isn’t justice. This is an institution treating sexual violence like a minor clerical hiccup. “Sorry Meya, but your pain didn’t tick enough boxes on the state’s cruelty checklist.”

According to the Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland, the crime, while serious, didn’t quite make the cut for deportation because rape now apparently comes in budget, regular, and deluxe packages. The law required proof of an “exceptionally serious offense” to expel a refugee. The court argued this wasn’t it.

Let’s be clear: This is not compassion. This is cowardice wrapped in legal jargon. A grotesque failure of a state too terrified of appearing xenophobic to protect its own daughters.

Meya is 16. A child. And now she has to live in a country that told her attacker: “You can stay.”

So when people say, “Europe is done”—this is why. It’s not about immigration. It’s about inversion. Right and wrong flipped until predators are protected and victims are afterthoughts. 💔🇸🇪

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