Coming month of September 2025 a third trial about Swedens so called apathetic refugee children will be held at Stockholm District Court. The court case relates to the epidemic of thousends of refugee children that were fed by tube for months and years from anno 1998 until 2020. This because pediatricians prescribed tube feeding for asylumseeking refugee children that lay paralyzed and mutistic in their beds.
Medical experts including British and American told it was probably malingering by proxy but Swedish pediatricians answered ”children cant malinger in such a way”. So the epidemic of mutistic paralyzed tubefed refugee children went on for decades until journalists 2019 interviewed now grown up children that told about the hell they went through. They told how they were beaten, starved and threatened to not say a word and not move when Swedish health staff examined them. When these interviews with the former children were published year 2019 it was an earthquake for the Swedish public and for the establishment especially for top journalists that for decades had published that Karolinska Institute with their Nobel Prize researchers told they had discovered a new illness among refugee children. After the interview with former apathetic children was published Karolinska Institute has shown eardeafening silence.
The terminology malingering by-proxy that included the word ”malingering” probably partly explains the tragedy. For Swedish pediatricians this was a totally new term they had never heard about. Using dictionaries they understood the word malinger but they, like I suppose many doctors all over the world, did not understand what by-proxy dynamics in a clinical situation meant. The Labour government year 2005 installed a commission named SOU 2006:49 that discussed ”group malingering by proxy” referring to the circumstance that it almost always was a group of family members that supposedly have encouraged or coerced a family member to lie silent, with diapers, mutistic and tubefed in bed to give Swedish health teams an impression that the child is very ill and therefor entitled to asylum according to Swedish law.
IN SHORT: ILLNESS COMMANDO BY-PROXY (ICBP) is a more valid, more clear and more distinctive term and should be used instead of malingering by proxy. This as the risk for misunderstandings would then probably be reduced. In fact when the State Commission SOU 2006:49 and some whistleblowers tried to explain the term malingering by proxy they were made a laughing stock by Swedish media and then denied whistleblowers public space because Swedish media deemed it impossible that children for months and years could malinger like Swedens apatathetic children did. And of course Swedish media was right. No child can voluntarily act like that. Therefor its necessary to exclude the term malingering from this kind of medical child abuse where the child is coerced, theratened and beaten to act according to commandos from a stronger part. The child is not malingering. The child is coerced to act according to instructions that can be extremely painful and traumatizing and even deadly. Many if the Swedish victims lost 20-30% of their body weight and cases of children starved to death are anonymously reported. But no one wants to hear about it. The scandal is too big. Especially as some children off the record still are kept by families as medical slaves to get incapacity benefits and extra income for tube feeding at home.
The Swedish tragedy IS NOT decribed in the Oscar nominated documentary ”Life Overtakes Me” that has misunderstood the situation accepting the view of Karolinska Institute. Likewise the British neurologist Suzanne O´Sullivan that has written a chapter about the Swedish ”sleeping children”. Even the New Yorker has fallen into the trap https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/the-trauma-of-facing-deportation Publications like this are extremely dangerous as they can create copycats among asylumseekers.
But the court case in Stockholm is surprisingly not about the children. Its about how Swedish media unanimously twisted the State Commissions report. The State Report SOU 2006:49 page 26 tells crystal clear that the children might be victims of severe atrocities but this, believe it or not, was by Swedish State Television and Swedish Radio published as ”The State Commission believes the children are malingering” and all of Swedens other media including medical journals for years echoed this and made it impossible to protect the children. This as everyone understood children could not malinger like this year after year and therefor they must be seriously ill. If anyone brought up an alternative thought that adult asylum seeker might be behind the childs situation and on purpose make the child ill to get asylum this person was immediately branded xenophobic and nazi by Swedish media as it was and still is absolutely prohibited and taboo to make allegations against asylum seekers in Sweden.