The case in summary • A man in his thirties from Telemark has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for exploiting 18 girls via social media over several years.• Several of the cases have been assessed as aggravated rape, and the youngest victim was only nine years old.• In in addition to the prison sentence, the man must pay almost NOK 2.6 million in restitution to 14 of the victims. • The man was acquitted of one of the cases for which he was charged. first arrested in January 2023.• The man pleaded guilty to a large part of the indictment when the case recently went to the Telemark district court. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. In addition to prison, the man must pay almost NOK 2.6 million in restitution distributed among 14 of the offended children in the case. The man was acquitted of one of the assaults, where, according to the indictment, he should have persuaded a girl to commit a sexual act with herself in front of the camera. Serious rape According to the police, Telemarkingen has sought out the victims on various services such as Snapchat, Kik, FaceTime and Omegle. The youngest of the girls was only nine years old when she came into contact with the man. The oldest was 14. In four of the cases he has been convicted of rape, where two of the incidents are characterized as serious. The two girls were only eleven and nine years old when the latter assaults allegedly took place. One of the victims in the case, an eleven-year-old girl, he is said to have met physically. Note over own camera In court, the defendant explained that he often had a note over his camera, at least at the start of the contact, and that he pretended to be younger than he was, often 16-17 years old. It usually started with a chat. In most cases he asked about the age of the girls. Eventually, he asked them to show their breasts and genitals, the judgment states. The man’s defender, Anne Tilly Aas, says that her client has been served with the sentence, but will wait to comment on the sentence until they have studied it more thoroughly. Satisfied with the verdict Heidi Ysen is the legal representative for 13 of the children. – We think it is the right punishment and the right amount, she says to news. Heidi Ysen is the legal representative for 13 of the offended girls. Photo: Martin Torstveit Although the prison sentence is most important for the aggrieved, the compensation is also very important, says Ysen. She says that there were also more victims in the case than the indictment covers. – The public prosecutor’s office has stripped it down to the bone, and only taken the most serious cases, she says. Ysen believes that there will be more major abuse cases in the future. – We will only see more and more of this. Unfortunately, says the public prosecutor. Lasted over several years According to the police, the assaults took place over a period of several years, from March 2020 until April last year. The defendant was first arrested on 4 January 2023. The background was suspicion of possession of child abuse material. The case recently went to the Telemark district court. Photo: Nils Fridtjof Skumsvoll / news The information came via Kripos and NCMEC, and a report that he should have paid money to be sent sexualized photos from one of the victims. The man pleaded guilty to a large part of the indictment when the case recently went to the Telemark district court. Published 27.06.2024, at 10.52 Updated 27.06.2024, at 11.20
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Man from Telemark convicted of assaulting 18 underage girls – news Vestfold and Telemark – Local news, TV and radio
