Reuters North America 4/30/97 2:39 PM

GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuter) - A Swedish teen-ager who paralyzed U.S.
telephone switchboards for months, prompting a global hunt by the FBI,
was fined the equivalent of $350 by a Swedish court Thursday. The
self-styled "Demon Freaker," who was not named in court, jammed
Florida switchboards last year by linking them to sex lines. He had
cracked the
codes of a company that enables Americans to call home from abroad,
allowing him to call anywhere in the United States free. He managed to
transfer the telefax number of the soft-porn magazine Hustler to his
own line so that he received orders for the magazine and
for sexual paraphernalia.... His mother said the boy had problems
with alcohol and glue-sniffing but she had no idea he was spending his
nights on the phone to America.... The boy was fined $345. He is now
in a state care institution.