A married 37-year-old midwife in Malmö claimed she needed to go to her son’s preschool to pick him up because he was sick and to take care of him. Instead, she went to her lover’s house—and later lied to her husband, saying she had been raped at her workplace. Her husband reported the incident to the police, which led to a comprehensive and costly investigation. Now the midwife has been convicted of false alarm.

This is a true story, straight out of a bad TV soap opera.

At lunchtime one day in November 2024, a midwife at the Women’s Clinic in Malmö tells her boss that she has a sick son at preschool. She explains she has to go and pick him up to take care of him (so-called “VAB” – care of a child).

The Lover in Lund

But the midwife does not go to her son’s preschool. Instead, she drives a couple of miles north, to Lund. There lives a man with whom she had been in contact via Messenger since that same morning. They have agreed to meet at his place.

The employer believes she’s at home taking care of her sick child. To her husband, the midwife instead says she will be attending a work-related course in Lund during the afternoon.

She even sends him a lecture schedule to make the lie seem more credible.

The sexual encounter with the man—whom she meets for the first time—lasts about four hours. Afterwards, the midwife goes to a nearby pharmacy and buys ellaOne—emergency contraception.

She continues messaging her lover, and they agree to see each other again. “My brain is spinning,” writes the love-struck 37-year-old.

They decide to meet again already the following day.

False Rape Report

Meanwhile, the 37-year-old midwife’s husband has been trying to get in touch with her. He has called several times, but she either has not answered or has dismissed the calls. He is worried and has sent her text messages, as well.

The man is at a playground in Malmö with their son, waiting for her to show up. But it takes nearly two hours before the mother finally appears.

The man senses something is wrong with his wife. They leave their son at his grandparents’ home. When they are alone, the 37-year-old woman confides: She has been raped at work.

The woman claims a stranger raped her in the locker room of the Women’s Clinic. It is her husband who then calls the police.

Serious Incident

The police launch a thorough investigation. Forensic technicians comb through the locker room where the woman claims to have been raped. Suspect shoeprints are secured, door handles swabbed, and forgotten socks, slips of paper, and even hair strands are seized.

Footage from surveillance cameras nearby is reviewed. Somewhere, the mysterious rapist must have been caught on camera.

At the same time, the hospital launches its own inquiry. A midwife being raped, in broad daylight, in the locker room of the Women’s Clinic is treated as a serious incident, and the head of security decides on a series of “security-enhancing measures”.

More surveillance cameras are installed, the number of guards is increased, staff are provided with personal alarms, and security checks at entry points are tightened.

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Unauthorised individuals should not be able to enter staff areas of the hospital.

Conflicting Statements

But the woman’s story about the rape does not add up. During interrogation, she says the perpetrator was in plain clothes and wore “regular clothes.” When examined by a doctor after the alleged assault, however, she claims he was wearing white hospital clothes.

Suspicions intensify when her husband mentions the course she was supposed to attend that afternoon—a course her boss has never heard of.

A colleague and close friend of the midwife tells the police she doesn’t believe the rape claim. The colleague says the 37-year-old wanted a form to apply for compensation for being raped at work. It is suspected that she wanted the money to renovate her house.

Suspicions that the woman has lied and simply made up the rape grow stronger. She is called in for questioning, and at that time the police seize her mobile phone.

Convicted of False Alarm

And in the seized mobile phone, the police find chats that reveal her extramarital affair. It is determined that her phone was connected to a cell tower in Lund, near her lover’s residence, at the same time she claims to have been raped at her workplace in Malmö.

The phone also contains searches for “infidelity” and “compensation” in relation to sexual assaults. Furthermore, the woman has visited several porn sites focused on infidelity themes and licentious nurses having sex with male doctors.

When confronted with this information, the woman has no answers. She blames memory gaps or says she doesn’t know. In October last year, she was charged with aggravated false alarm, a crime punished with at least six months in prison.

Now the 37-year-old midwife has been convicted of false alarm of normal degree. “As stated above, the aggravated form of the crime is intended for acts which are considered significantly more serious than the one in this case,” the court writes in its verdict.

The penalty is limited to 50 day-fines.

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