Iida Ketola tells about the 2019 events in the MOT program.
Entrepreneur Iida Ketola’s life changed instantly when she was a victim of a taxi in a taxi. He left Helsinki behind and now lives in the old wooden house. Yle, Thomas Hagström
In December 2019, Iida Ketola got a taxi in downtown Helsinki and asked the driver to take her home. This didn’t happen. The male driver went around the city and eventually raped Ketola.
– At that moment, I was absolutely sure that I would certainly not survive this, Ketola says MOT to the journalist For Anne Ali-Hokka.
Passed years before a taxi driver committed by the act Arian Juhana Rezaji We got the right. Iltalehti has followed the incident and also said that Rezaji is a hardened serial throat.
Mightily MOT Rezaj had 12 victims before he was caught. Some Rezaj’s crimes are still in the process of proceeding in the Court of Appeal, which will give its sentence later. Iltalehti In the beginning of the year, crimes committed in 2019-2020 have been discussed, of which the district court sentenced Rezaj to more than six and a half years in prison. According to the District Court, Rezaj had eight victims during that time, six of which were raped by Rezaji. For the two, it was a disruption of liberty. One of the sports people managed to escape from Rezaj’s nails. The other made him persuaded to turn his car around and take him to the right address.
Taxiacker Arian Juhana Rezaji at the Helsinki Court of Appeal in February this year. Henri Kärkkäinen
For some of the crimes he has committed, Rezaji has already received a final judgment, as Iltalehti has previously said. There were four victims. Two years ago, the Helsinki Court of Appeal sentenced him to six years and five months in prison, and the Supreme Court did not authorize the appeal.
Mot Today, asks why the author was able to continue crimes year after year and interview the police on the subject.
Mot Has investigated more widely the sexual harassment of taxis and ways to prevent it. Prior to the release of the taxi sector in 2018, sexual acts in taxis were rare, according to the program. Since then, Helsinki police have received over a hundred criminal reports of a taxi driver’s suspected sexual offenses. However, many cases are often obscured. The threshold to indicate them is high. In situations, there is often a word against the word, and the victim can be associated with a sense of shame. MOT According to the industry’s reputation, the industry has suffered since the driver has become almost anyone without mandatory training.
MOT tells how Tanja Tervahti, a local training coordinator, goes through cultural differences in the training of new drivers, which can affect the driver’s behavior. Yle, Thomas Hagström
As a victim of sexual offenses, Ketola’s spiritual burden has been heavy. It took almost a year and a half before the perpetrator was found. In the case of Ketola, Rezaj’s final judgment came from the Court of Appeal two years later.
– There were days when you didn’t think about it at all. Then there were days when I couldn’t think of anything else. I couldn’t leave it behind, move forward, Ketola says In MOT.
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