Prison officer had a child with released rapist

A prison officer at a correctional facility in central Sweden became pregnant with a former inmate – who had served a sentence for multiple rapes.

Now she is being punished with a one-month salary deduction, reports Dagens Juridik.

In the spring, the Prison and Probation Service was informed that the prison officer was suspected of having a relationship with a former inmate she had met while he was serving a four-year prison sentence for seven rapes, assault, and gross violation of privacy.

Confronted with the information, the then-pregnant woman denied it and provided a different name for the child's father. However, a population registration check a few months later revealed that the former inmate was registered as the child's father.

The Prison and Probation Service's personnel responsibility board is punishing the woman with a 30-day salary deduction – the highest possible. This is for initiating an "improper" relationship with the man and subsequently failing to inform her employer about the situation.