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Court Convicts First Woman for Rape
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Court Convicts First Woman for Rape
OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism.
The 31-year-old man fell asleep on a sofa at a party in January last year and told the court in the western city of Bergen he woke to find the 23-year-old woman was having oral sex with him.
Under Norwegian law, all sexual acts with someone who is "unconscious or for other reasons unable to oppose the act" are considered rape.
The court sentenced the woman Wednesday to nine months in jail and ordered her to pay 40,000 Norwegian crowns ($6,355) in compensation.
"This is a very harsh sentence," the woman's lawyer, Per Magne Kristiansen, told the Norwegian news agency NTB. The woman argued the man had been awake and consented.
The prosecutor had sought a 10-month sentence and argued the court should not be more lenient with a woman than a man. It was Norway's first conviction of a woman for rape.
Norway has long traditions of equality -- 40 percent of the cabinet of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, for instance, are women.
OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism.
The 31-year-old man fell asleep on a sofa at a party in January last year and told the court in the western city of Bergen he woke to find the 23-year-old woman was having oral sex with him.
Under Norwegian law, all sexual acts with someone who is "unconscious or for other reasons unable to oppose the act" are considered rape.
The court sentenced the woman Wednesday to nine months in jail and ordered her to pay 40,000 Norwegian crowns ($6,355) in compensation.
"This is a very harsh sentence," the woman's lawyer, Per Magne Kristiansen, told the Norwegian news agency NTB. The woman argued the man had been awake and consented.
The prosecutor had sought a 10-month sentence and argued the court should not be more lenient with a woman than a man. It was Norway's first conviction of a woman for rape.
Norway has long traditions of equality -- 40 percent of the cabinet of Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, for instance, are women.
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tell the truth how many of us men here would cry rape if this happened [:p][;)]
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tell the truth how many of us men here would cry rape if this happened [:p][;)]
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She was only a fisherman's daughter,
But when she saw my rod she reeled.
What if she looks like Rosie O'Donnel?[xx(]
Then he'd have been better off to cut off his little Norseman.[:0]
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Refreshing to know that PC lunacy also exists outside the US.
i think more disturbing than refreshing
What if she looks like Rosie O'Donnel?[xx(]
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In reality it would be nice to wake up and have a beautiful woman on the end of your "_____", but it still would be alarming, and even down right scary if she was hideous, but I don't think I would call the cops on her
I have a buddy who is a sheriff's deputy and arrested a guy for doing the same thing to another guy last year, except he got his butt kicked, the idiot did it after a party and the guy was still in bed with his girlfriend
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how dare they charge her![}:)]
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Maybe he ordered an H1 and only got an H2[?][:D]
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