Norway
NTB
14 July 2023 11:20 – Updated 14 July 2023 11:20
A man is charged with child abuse. The incidents are said to have occurred while he was serving a previous assault sentence in transitional housing.
The public prosecutor may ask for detention.
In 2020, a man from Eastern Norway was sentenced to two years in prison for attempted rape of children under 14.
Now the man, who is in his 40s, is charged with aggravated rape of a child. These assaults must have happened while he was serving the first sentence, writes Jærbladet.
– The first assaults in the indictment happened while he was in transitional housing, police attorney Jeanette Svendsen told the newspaper. She is the prosecutor in the rape case against the man.
It will concern both physical rape and online abuse against a 13-year-old girl.
The penalty for aggravated rape is imprisonment for up to 21 years, but the state attorney has made a reservation that a request for detention in the case may be made.
– The background for that is that he has previously been convicted of attempted rape of children, and that the assaults he is now accused of were committed while he was in transitional housing and in the time after he was released on probation, says police attorney Svendsen.
2023-07-14 09:20:36
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