The three serious and extensive indictments have been drawn up by State Attorney Ellen Cathrine Greve. Three people, a pair of parents and a man in his 30s, are accused of gross rape of three children. – The case started when the child protection agency reported the man in his 30s to the police. During the investigation, the parents were also involved, says State Attorney Greve to news. The prosecution has requested that the three cases be dealt with in the same trial. This means that the defendants must face each other in Hordaland District Court during 2023. Gross rape of three children The parents, a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s, are charged with the rape of their own children. The boy and girl were under ten years old when the abuse allegedly started. According to the indictment, the rapes took place over several years, in a municipality in Vestland county. “She was also aware that the daughter was subjected to abuse by her father (…) and without trying to prevent the abuse from taking place,” the indictment that has been brought against the mother of the children states. – It is a very serious matter, where two children have been subjected to abuse by their parents, says legal aid lawyer Beate Hamre to news. In addition, a man in his 30s is accused of raping the parents’ daughter. He is also accused of raping his own son, who was also under ten years old when the abuse started. The penalty for aggravated rape of a child under the age of 14 is 21 years in prison. Denies criminal liability – He denies criminal liability on all counts, says lawyer Kai Inge Gavle to news. He defends the man in his 30s, who at one point lived in the same neighborhood as the parents. Lawyer Jan Henrik Høines is defending the man in his 50s. In 2018, the man was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for downloading images of abuse from 2013 to 2017, writes BT. – My client denies that he has carried out the actions described in the indictment. He does not admit criminal guilt. He sees it as a very serious indictment and will use the time in the future to go through the documents in the case, Høines told news. Lawyer Astrid Aksnes defends the woman in her 40s. She says that her client does not admit criminal guilt nor the facts on which the indictment is based. Remand prison According to the state attorney, only one of the three defendants is in remand prison. It is the man in his 50s, who has been in custody since the second half of 2021. Here Greve announces that she is considering submitting a request for detention as punishment for the defendant. The three offended children have been in long arranged hearings at the Children’s House. They are currently being followed up by child protection, says Greve. The trial in Hordaland District Court has not yet been scheduled.Indicted for several matters All three persons have been charged with several matters. The man in his 50s is also charged with a breach of the Animal Welfare Act section 37, which deals with sexual intercourse with a dog. He is also charged with sexual intercourse with a “relative in the descending line”, which is section 312 of the Penal Code. The woman in her 40s is also charged under section 312. The man in his 30s is charged with having produced abuse material in the form of a picture. In addition, he is charged with Section 312 of the Criminal Code.
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Parent couple indicted for raping the children – news Vestland
