Assignment review has revealed how a man convicted of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in 2009 was able to continue as a coach and judge in the youth handball in Stockholm for several years.

The first coaching assignment the man receives after his verdict is in Hammarby handball. Janne Strandberg, head of coach recruitment, says that if the man had applied for the job today he would never have been given a job. But then they did not extract any from the load register.

- We simply didn't know we should have done that, I think. And in addition, we were an association with quite a few teams. We probably received just the help we got. A bit naive then you can really think, he says.

"Not even a thought to control"

Since 2013, sports associations have the opportunity to request that those who want to train children and young people show a so-called limited extract from the load register. It shows crimes that involve very serious offenses by other people, such as serious violent crimes and all sexual crimes. Before that, you could only request a complete registry extract.

Yet the clubs failed to check the man's verdict.

The handball club Stockholmspolisen IF, where the man was a boy's coach for more than a year, writes in an e-mail to Assignment Review that because the man's parents are active leaders in a cooperation club, they "did not even have a thought to control him". They also write that they feel confident that nothing happened during the time at the club.

Another check today

Another club where the man trained a boy team, Skuru IK, writes in an e-mail that today they have a completely different control and routinely request extracts from the load register.

"Of course, the current leader would not have been able to work as a leader in our association if we had a working background check and thus knowledge of the judgment."

In the clip above you can hear Janne Strandberg from Hammarby Handball - and Ulrica Engström Nilsson, Vice Chairman of Skogås HK, where the man trained both a girls team and a boys team.

Assignment review report The convicted coach will be sent Wednesday, August 21. You can watch it from 12pm on SVT Play or 8pm on SVT1.