(Sweden) Forced 'infidelity check' is rape: Supreme Court
Forced 'infidelity check' is rape: Supreme Court
The Swedish Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen) has ruled that performing an "infidelity check" on a woman is a form of rape, overturning a lower court ruling that cleared a man who tore off his wife's pants and underwear in an attempt to determine whether she had had sex with another man.
"If a man forces a woman to tolerate him putting his fingers in her genitals, then the incident has a tangible sexual character that is capable of violating her sexual integrity. It is therefore a question of a punishable sexual act," the Supreme Court wrote in a statement on Thursday.
"The circumstances in this case are such that the act shall be deemed as rape, no less aggravated rape."
The man had previously been convicted of rape by a lower court after he tore off his girlfriend's clothes and forced his fingers into her genitals on suspicion that she had been unfaithful, legal trade publication Dagens Juridik reported in Februrary.
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