First results of Sweden’s asylum age assessment tests

Well, knock me over a feather. They aren’t children after all.

I’m shocked, I tell ya. And they put these savages in high schools with young girls.

First results of Sweden’s asylum age assessment tests

The Local, SE, May 30, 2017:

Three in four of those asylum seekers subjected to a new method of medically assessing their age by examining their teeth and knee joints have so far been found to be older than 18.

The national forensic medicine agency (Rättsmedicinalverket) began to carry out the tests earlier this year.

They are designed to make age assessment during the asylum process more accurate, after the migration authority was criticized for failings in assessing the correct age of some refugees claiming to be underage.

The agency has so far received around 4,200 requests from the Migration Agency and has completed assessments of the ages of a total of 581 people. It is only asked to carry out the tests in cases when the person’s age is in question.

The test results in 442 of these 581 cases “suggest that the person examined is 18 years or older”, according to Rättsmedicinalverket. Of these, 430 were men and 12 women.

Its experts also found that five of the test results, all women, “possibly suggest that the person examined is 18 years or older” and that in 134 cases (133 males and one female) the examination “possibly suggests that the person examined is under 18”.

The method of medical age assessment consists of taking X-rays of wisdom teeth, and MRI scans of knee joints, which are then analyzed by dentists and radiologists.

The Migration Agency stressed the figures did not show that asylum seekers who lie about their age represent the majority of applicants, as the tests are only carried out in cases where it believes existing evidence is not enough.