A Finnish Court Orders a Woman To Pay Legal Fees For Foreign Men She Says Raped Her

temblors · 2026-06-20T03:07:35+00:00

Tbh I don't think there is enough info in the article linked. However there is more info on the pages linked within the article. Below is translated text of one of the linked articles and it does tell a bit more but it's not exactly 100% clear cut what exactly went down that day. Whatever both the District and Appeals courts saw on the security footage was compelling enough to make them dismiss the charges. It seems that a bit of critical thinking and discernment is called for here.

https://www.hs.fi/helsinki/art-2000011999230.html

The Helsinki Court of Appeal dismissed rape charges in a case in which three men of foreign background took a drunk 17-year-old girl from a hospital emergency room to the forest and had sex with her.

The Helsinki District Court had acquitted the men of the charges in April 2025.

The alleged crime took place in October 2024, when a nearly adult girl ended up in the emergency room of Malmi Hospital due to severe intoxication. At the hospital, the girl met three men who invited the girl to go with them to a nearby forest to have sex.

According to the district court, the men had reason to believe that the girl had consented to various sexual encounters. The hospital's surveillance cameras show the girl in a good mood and not particularly intoxicated. Afterwards, the tearful and hysterical girl said that she had been raped.

The Court of Appeal took up the case that caused a stir last spring after a collection had been arranged for the plaintiff to cover legal costs. The prosecutor was satisfied with the district court's verdict.

In the Court of Appeal, the girl's defense also argued that she was severely intoxicated, which meant that she could not have given consent.

According to the girl's representative, no conclusions could be drawn about the girl's activities in the woods based on the surveillance camera recordings, and a one-sentence conversation would not have been sufficient consent to sex anyway.

The men demanded that the complaint be dismissed. According to them, intoxication could not be assessed based on the blood alcohol level, but rather on the girl's ability to function.

The Court of Appeal reached the same interpretation of the events as the District Court. According to the court, thanks to the abundant video footage, it was possible to assess the girl's actions throughout her time in the area.

The recordings show the girl walking into the forest on her own initiative and independently with the trio. According to the doctor's statement, the girl was "drunk and very businesslike" before the events.

The hospital guard surprised the girl and the men in the forest during the incident. At that time, the girl moved to another forest on her own, accompanied by the men. Based on these facts, the Court of Appeal found that there was no lack of consent or fear.

In the spring of with HS In an interview 2025, criminal law professor Sakari Melander considered the district court's verdict to be well-founded.

However, Melander told HS that he did not consider it impossible that the evidence would be assessed differently in the Court of Appeal. This could lead to a different outcome than in the District Court.

After the girl loses in the Court of Appeal, she will have to pay the opposing party's legal costs.

TLDR: The charges against the men were dismissed mainly because of the footage captured by the hospital security cameras. It showed the woman seemingly in a 'good mood' and it appeared that she was an enthusiastic and willing participant in the sexual shenanigans. Since the charges were dismissed a collection went around to raise the money for the men's legal fees to be paid. The appeals court took up the case and then they ultimately reached the same conclusion as the district court. There's more to it but that's the general gist of it.

ETA not saying either way in this case here, but I have definitely seen people hooking up in the hospital before. People are weird.

Alert_Term_8144 · 2026-06-20T00:30:01+00:00

Toss up on this one. I know between men and women, society/judges take women's sides these days, especially if the girl is underage like she is here. However, observing Western societies cater to foreigners rather than their own people, they would give the foreign men the benefit of the doubt while dismissing the 17-yr old if she's white. Kind of like when they immediately believed Digwa's false "claim of racial abuse" and dismissed Henry Nowak's observable claim of "I've been stabbed."

So she seemed in good spirits on the security camera which seems subjective since maybe she was just acting that way, but WHY would a 17-year old leave the hospital with THREE strange men she just met and have sex in the bushes with them? Her being intoxicated also did not seem to factor into the court's decision.

This seems strangely similar to the grooming gangs report. Would be crazy if something like that was happening and then the Finnish court ordered an underage girl to pay their legal fees.

Current_Finding_4066 · 2026-06-20T05:50:24+00:00

Funny how they lie intoxicated women do not voluntarily fuck, and later experience regret it and want to destroy the men's life with false rape allegations. There are only two clear case where rape is undeniable, if a woman or a man are unconscious. or refuse sex.

okaygirlie · 2026-06-20T00:22:30+00:00

Man, do you guys even read these articles before you upvote them?

enemy_of_misandry · 2026-06-20T01:45:26+00:00

Good.

No_Industry_4948 · 2026-06-20T07:45:33+00:00

So let me see if I have this right,… If I’m some fratbro at some prestigious university and I have consensual intercourse with an extremely inebriated 17 year old girl,..even though it was consensual, because she was intoxicated it’s considered SA, and statutory at that. But if three foreign men have sex with a 17 year girl, with a blood alcohol at 2.5 times the legal limit,… it’s perfectly ok,…and the girl gets prosecuted if she complains?

Title	A Finnish Court Orders a Woman To Pay Legal Fees For Foreign Men She Says Raped Her
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Date	June 19, 2026 10:29 PM UTC (1 month ago)
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