For a man who preyed children again, a new sentence is a new sentence
Trials|The man claimed that he confessed and had already applied for treatment.
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The Helsinki District Court sentenced Markku Olavi Salmela to 2.5 years in prison for sexual offenses against children.
Salmela was convicted of nine sexual abuse of a child and for spreading a picture that violates sexuality.
The victims were between 11 and 16 years old, and the acts took place between 2020 and 2021, mainly through the Snapchat application.
Salmela already has previous convictions for similar crimes, and she claimed to have applied for treatment.
Helsinki On Wednesday, the District Court sentenced two and a half years of imprisonment for sexual offenses against children to a man who had previously committed similar crimes.
For now Markku Olavi Salmela35, was convicted of nine sexual abuse of a child and for spreading a picture that violates sexuality.
The way of doing things was law repeated and similar, which also raised the punishment. Salmela’s victims were children aged 11-15 at the time of the act, one was 16 years old.
Salmela talked with the children in the Snapchat app sexual tone and made the children send themselves sexual pictures and videos. He sent himself nude pictures and videos in which he satisfies himself. He also recorded the pictures and videos he received on a separate application on his computer.
In one case, he filmed a 16-year-old girl in the hotel room for a video and touched her. The events are from 2020 and 2021.
The court held that he harmed and compromised each child’s development.
As the most serious acts, the court considered cases where Salmela had managed to get the victim to send pictures and videos where they satisfy themselves and the cases where Salmela sent her own satisfaction videos.
One or two The fact relieved the penalty, which would in principle have been three and a half years. Salmela acknowledged the acts and appealed that, during the imprisonment of her previous actions, she has applied for treatment for the so -called « new direction » program.
The court notes that the victims did not need to participate in court at all, which reduced the damage caused to them.
He has two previous two years of absolute imprisonment of more than two years, which also contributed to the reduction of the sentence now.
Under the Criminal Code, previous imprisonment sentences may be taken into account when imposing a new penalty as a reduction in punishment if the acts could have been dealt with in the same trial.
The combined measure of all three judgments is more than eight years in prison.
Legal He also ordered Salmela for large compensation, the total amount of which rises to several tens of thousands of euros.
For example, the costs of litigation should pay an average of over a thousand euros on average for each victim. Even more to pay comes from suffering compensation, the amounts ranging from one thousand to five thousand euros for each.
