The case in summary: A 26-year-old and his family have been sentenced to 7 and 11 months in prison for child marriage with a 14-year-old girl from Eastern Europe. This is the first verdict for child marriage in over 10 years in Norway. The girl came to Norway together with the 26-year-old and his father, and the police were alerted to concerns about forced marriage or prostitution. On seized mobile phones, the police found pictures of the girl and the 26-year-old, which indicated a love relationship. The 26-year-old and his parents were prosecuted for marriage or marriage-like relations with a person under the age of 16. The family appealed the sentence, and the second oldest’s sentence was reduced by four months in the Court of Appeal. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. The family was thus sentenced to almost the same sentence in the Agder Court of Appeal as they did in the Vestfold District Court. – My client is disappointed. He believes his son has not entered into any marriage-like relationship, says defender Veycel Ince. He says he has not read the entire judgment yet, but says it may be appropriate to appeal. – I will have to decide on that together with my client after we have studied the judgment in more detail. It has been over two years since the girl, who was then 14, landed at Torp airport in Sandefjord. She came from a country in Eastern Europe with a 24-year-old man and his father. A few days later, the police and child protection met at the door outside the apartment where they lived in Oslo. It was the police officer at the border control at Torp who had sent a report of concern to the child protection agency. The girl was taken from the apartment to a child protection intuition and questioned twice. The police feared she had been forcibly married or was going into prostitution. CEREMONY: This photo is one of the pieces of evidence for the police that there has been a formal ceremony between the two. Both say this was not a wedding. First sentence in over 12 years On seized mobile phones, the police found pictures of the girl, from ceremonies and parties in her home country where she is decked out in a big, red dress. The ceremony took place just a few days before she arrived in Torp. They also found scantily clad photos of the 14-year-old and photos of her and the 24-year-old kissing. The investigation resulted in the 24-year-old being prosecuted for marriage or marriage-like relations with a person under the age of 16. And his parents were charged with facilitating it. All three appealed the sentence of 11 months from the district court. But in today’s judgment from the Court of Appeal, the second oldest’s sentence has been reduced by four months. If none of the case is appealed to the Supreme Court, it stands as a rare victory for the police. According to the Attorney General, no one has been convicted of child marriage in the last 12 years. In recent years, the police have only lost such cases. No one has been convicted of child marriage for over ten years. news Brennpunkt has obtained figures from the attorney general on how many have been convicted of marriage to a minor, under the new and old penal code, since 2012. The only judgment that was found was a judgment from the Oslo district court in 2012. There, a couple of parents were sentenced for having married off their daughter who was 15 years old. The couple’s appeal was rejected in 2014. It is pointed out that there may be other judgments that have been incorrectly registered. news has also reviewed Lovdata, for possible sentences that did not appear in the Attorney General’s statistics. Then we found a judgment from 2014 where a 13-year-old girl was forced into a marriage, and then threatened to steal, beg and offer sexual services. A man was convicted of exploiting a person for forced labour. But no one was convicted of child marriage. Just talk about “søz” The defenders of the family have played down the allegation of child marriage. The man, who is now 26 years old, told the Court of Appeal that he loved the girl, that they were just lovers and that they had no immediate plans to marry. He said that the girl had lied about her age and that he thought she was 16. But he continued to be her lover anyway. For; they had entered into a “søz”, which both the defense and the girl herself believe is less of an obligation than a Norwegian engagement. Both come from the same Muslim minority in their home country. In the Court of Appeal, he commented on the case, among other things, as follows: – Now, after everything I have experienced, I regret it very much. I wish I could go back in time. Police chief Jasmina desperately tries to save two young Norwegians from being forced into marriage. At the same time, “Nora” is on the run from her parents.
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