Sexual offender sentenced to 3 years in prison

A court on Wednesday sentenced a 23-year-old man to three years and two months in prison for aggravated rape and brutal sexual abuse of a child.

The convict is a foreign background person, who was also obliged to pay 7,300 euros to the victim for mental illness and pain, decided the Oulu District Court, according to Finnish national broadcaster, Yle.

The victim was an underage girl when the crime took place in November 2018 in Oulu, a major city in northern Finland.

Yle said the victim came from another place to Oulu and had no place to stay. For spending the night, she went to a private residence, where the defendant went into. The court said the man took advantage of the defenseless state of the victim. The offender and the victim didn't know each other before.

A series of suspected sexual offenses in Oulu were disclosed at the end of last year.

The Oulu police reported earlier that they were investigating 29 criminal offenses suspected of serious sexual assault against minors. Some of suspects were Finnish citizens and some with foreign backgrounds.

After the series of sexual crimes had been uncovered, interior minister Kai Mykkänen called for tougher punishment for non-Finnish criminals in January this year.

He reiterated his position that dual citizens who are found guilty of aggravated sexual offenses should have their Finnish citizenship deprived.