Finnish supreme court has come to conclusion over a case of a police officer who raped a 16 year old girl.
He lured her in by presenting his badge and using his authority as a police officer, then got her drunk raped her (twice) and posted pictures about the incident.
The court declared him guilty of the rape and gave him a sentence of two years and three months.
Seems a bit small for a rape but I guess they are going soft on him because he is a cop after all. Which seems to be why they also declared him innocent of misusing his position and authority as a police officer. The lower courts had felt that using your badge to trick someone and then raping her is a misuse of his authority but the supreme court disagreed.
Apparently the fact that he wasn't on duty at the time was what made them change their mind. I mean since he wasn't on duty when he lured her into his home "It cannot be concidered that he had been acting as a officer." AND the supreme court also felt that he had not in fact "broken his oath" since the crime didn't happen when he was working.
I suppose you could say that they have some logic in this, except that they have previously declared that off duty officers still have the authority of an police officer! Even an off duty cop can arrest people and resisting them is "resisting an police officer." If you are in a fight with a cop you will be charged with assaulting an officer on duty even if he is not on duty.
WHAT THE HELL?!
Links (in finnish only, for some reason I can't seem to find english articles about this)
http://yle.fi/uutiset/korkein_oikeus_teinityton_raiskannut_poliisi_ei_tehnyt_virkarikosta/6474450?origin=rsshttp://www.savonsanomat.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/raiskannut-poliisi-ei-tehnyt-virkarikosta/1293448