Dumpen published police employee's sex chat with fictitious child

Sara Nilsson, editor-in-chief of the site Dumpen.se, has been convicted of aggravated defamation against a police employee who engaged in sexual chats with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.

In January 2024, Dumpen.se published screenshots and a video confrontation with a 33-year-old man living in Uppsala. The man had been chatting online for some time with a girl he thought was 14, but who was actually working for Dumpen.

The man, who works for the Police Authority, describes in the chats his sexual fantasies about the girl, including how he wants to have sex with her in the shower. He also takes several photos of himself, including one from the bathroom at his workplace, which he sends to the girl.

When the police employee is confronted by Patrik Sjöberg and Sara Nilsson, who run Dumpen.se, he exclaims a surprised “Excuse me” and then leaves.

Convicted of crime

The events from just over two years ago now have legal consequences. Sara Nilsson, the editor-in-chief of Dumpen, has been convicted by the Gothenburg District Court of aggravated defamation.

The case is one of freedom of the press in which a jury finds the defendant guilty or not guilty. The jury chose to acquit Sara Nilsson of every individual claim she made about the police employee that she spread about him.

Among these, statements like calling him someone who “sex-chats with children,” a “pike,” “sends dick pics to a child,” and that he likes “hard sex with minors.”

Instead, the aggravated defamation, according to the jury, consisted of all these claims “together with all other alleged claims including the published video, screenshots, chats and photos, other website content, and the naming.”

The penalty for Sara Nilsson will be announced on February 6.