Eric Scheske

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Those Crazy Scandinavians, Episode 258,901

A Swedish drama student was fined 2400 crowns ($406.67) today for reading pornographic stories to a group of six-year-olds as part of a theatre project on children's sexuality.

I don't know if I'm more shocked that the drama student read the stories or that a Swedish judge cared.

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