Now, the social director in Helsingborg is appointing an external investigator to review the legal security, reports SVT's Mission Review.
When the boy was seven years old, his mother accused the father of sexually abusing the son in connection with a custody dispute. The police dropped the investigation against the father, but then the mother came up with new information, that the boy himself had committed sexual abuse against a younger sibling.
The social services brought in a care company with special expertise in children as perpetrators, whose therapist assessed that the boy was a danger to his sibling and should be protected from the father. The boy was placed in a residential care home and foster home for several years.
The father tells SVT that he repeatedly asked to talk to his son and tried to send him a postcard, but the social services denied him all contact, despite the lack of a formal decision on visitation restrictions.
When a new social secretary began to review how the boy had been treated after four years, it was found that there was no evidence that he had committed any abuse against other children. It also turned out that the boy had been pressured by the mother to tell about abuse from the father's side.
Johan Klingborg, social director in Helsingborg, tells SVT that an external investigator is now being brought in to conduct a review. He admits that the social services staff acted without legal grounds.
