Saturday, April 4, 2015

Three men convicted of gang rape in Hemsedal - Aftenposten

The judgment is for two of the three stringent than the prosecutor’s assertion. The three men, in addition ordered to pay the woman compensation of 300,000 kroner, NRK reported.

The judgment of the court is unanimous. The rape occurred in March 2014 on two different addresses near Hemsedal village. The three, according to the verdict have drugged the woman in their late teens and raped her repeatedly for several hours.

The men denied guilt in court and explained that intercourse was voluntary from the woman’s hand, but the court attached no credence to their explanation.

The woman was on a weekend trip with his family in Hemsedal. At a bar in the center, she was refused entry because she was too young. Outside the club, she met one of the condemned men who invited her on afterparty at a cabin a few miles outside the center of Hemsedal, where the first rape occurred.

It was also taken pictures of the woman while the abuse happened, which Court emphasized in the judgment, and that counts in aggravating. It is also argued that aggravating that the three men were at least ten years older than the woman.

The woman is according to the judgment inflicted serious psychological damage and getting treatment for PTSD, which has reduced her quality of life significantly. The court found no mitigating circumstances in the case. (© NTB)

Published: 04.apr. 2015 2:07 p.m.

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