When the police arrived at an apartment in Söderhamn at the beginning of the year, they found two small children - locked in each room in neckerchief diapers. One door was locked with a safety chain and in front of the doorway to the other room was a chest of drawers and a gate.

In the same apartment, the children's mother and her partner were sleeping.

Receives conditional judgment and daily fines

Both the mother and her partner receive a conditional sentence and daily fines for illegal detention, reports P4 Gävleborg. According to the judgment, the couple acted in consensus and deliberately deprived the children.

The mother is also convicted of minor drug offenses for a crime on another occasion.