"[7] Oulu police department warned young girls and parents to be on the lookout for sexual predators active on social media.
[13] On 11 February it was reported that police had started to investigate new suspected rapes of two underage girls that had occurred a few days earlier at a private home.
"[16] In 2020, following an unsuccessful appeal initiated by eight of the foreign convicts, it was revealed that they had a common 12-13 year-old victim, whom they had gotten to know and kept in touch "mostly through various social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp."
[21] Muso Asoev, born in 1975 in Tajikistan, was sentenced to three years and eight months' prison, plus compensation of €10,500 to the victim, for sexual abuse and digital penetration of a 10-year old girl inside a mosque between 7 July and 7 October 2018.
[22] Abdullhadi Barhum, age 22 in 2019, was sentenced to two-and-half year's prison, plus compensation of €3,700 to the victim, for child sexual abuse and rape of a 14-year old girl who reached out on a popular social media for someone to buy her cigarettes, which he did, before forcing her to have oral sex.
[23] Abdul Aziz Nayef Dbeisan Al-Bodour, aged 23 in 2019, was sentenced to 38 month's prison, plus compensation of €7,300 to the victim, for rape and gross sexual abuse of a child.
[25] On 12 July 2019, Oulu District Court [fi] gave the last sentences concerning the cases involving eight foreign-born men who abused the same female victim who was 12–13 years old during the crimes.
[26] The outcome was: In early December 2018, Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä said, "The guilty parties will be punished regardless of their ethnicity in a state of law.
"[40] In mid-January 2019, Sipilä issued a formal statement, saying "The government has changed the law since the beginning of the year, making it easier to expel foreigners who have committed crimes.
"[42] Minister of the Interior Kai Mykkänen said these things shouldn't be occurring in Finland and called for immigrants residing at reception centres to be educated.
[52] In April 2019, French newspaper Le Figaro attributed the Finns Party success[53] in that month's Finnish elections to the immigrant sexual exploitation scandal,[54] as did Italian newspaper La Repubblica which reported "arrests of non-EU citizens accused and suspected of sexual abuse or rape had alarmed no small part of public opinion.