Tuesday takes fotballdommeren in 20-years the courtroom in Lower Romerike district court. Behind closed doors, but with the press present, he should be the next few months to tell and hear about how he is in a period of several years should have exposed hundreds of young boys for sexual abuse on the web.
the Man is accused of having contacted the victims under the alias “Sandra” on the various messaging services. These should have been enticed to send sexually explicit images and videos of themselves, and the defendant to have threatened the boys to continue to send sexually explicit content – if not would the pictures and videos have been published on the internet.
a Two-year investigation
about two years working in the police with the investigation, in what was named operation Sandra. The police have in advance of the trial did not wanted to comment on how the concrete worked, but a source close to the investigation describe the opposite Dagbladet work as follows: for each victim who was tracked up, then popped it up three new ones. the
In the right there will be presented a comprehensive bevisgrunnlag. 100 000 pictures and 40 000 video clips are among the material that is collected.
the Case has rocked the fotballmiljøet and spread fear among the around 300 offended. Only in excess of 40 is called in to testify. The remaining have not wanted to ask in court, among other things, in fear of being identified, and will instead give their explanations in the form of videoavhør.
– Many of the parents have no idea that their sons are victims Deny pedophilia
In court it will be presented an expert report on the man, performed by Harald Brauer and Terje Tørrissen.
Dagbladet know that the experts in the report concludes that the man is a pedophile. They will be present in the court and among other things, to follow the man’s explanations, and present their final conclusions at the end of the trial.
the Man has according to his defense lawyer Gunhild Lærum is already acknowledged to have performed nettovergrepene, but she emphasizes that he rejects that he is a pedophile.
the Diagnosis of the expert set will be a central part of the court’s review if prosecutors add a claim for forvaringsstraff.
the district attorney has made the reservation about custody in the indictment, but we are going to argue against it. My client is of the opinion that he did not have any diagnosis, and also don’t want to be punished with detention as a result of such a diagnosis. We will therefore ask for the usual term of imprisonment, ” says the lawyer to the Newspaper.
Stunned acquaintances: – I had never thought this about him
Lærum was also the defence counsel in the so-called Lommemannen-case, where Erik Andersen was convicted for the sexual abuse of 66 boys in the period from 1999 to 2006. Like the defendant fotballdommeren, also denied the Andersen to be a pedophile. Despite this, he was sentenced to ten years ‘ detention with a minimum time of seven years.
After each of his sentence acknowledged the Andersen that he was a pedophile, and received treatment for this in prison. After seven years he was employed as well, and was shortly later released.
Diagnosis without answer key
Pål Grøndahl, one of the country’s most experienced experts in criminal cases, explaining that pedophilia is a parafili – a sexual deviation.
– It is a little round diagnosis, but it is about the sexual interest directed towards children in førpubertal age. It is about what thoughts, feelings, and fantasies one has, and especially what you live out. There are pedophiles who never commit atrocities, there are pedophiles who commit atrocities and it is nobody’s about committing violence against children because children are easy victims and not necessarily because they are pedophiles, says rettspsykolog Grøndahl.
Seized chatlogger on several thousand sides
The experts in fotballdommer case concludes that the diagnosis will be enhanced if the man is sentenced for the most serious conditions. Grøndahl says it is not a very unusual formulation, but that he is not even using it.
I think it is unfortunate to associate a legal assessment of a criminal offense compared to a diagnosis. I think it is better to rather put forward any doubt, an even may have relating to the conclusion, ” says Grøndahl.
the Danger of a new assault
In addition to pedophilia to the experts in the report have also concluded with the re-offending of the defendant fotballdommeren. The extent of re-offending it is to talk about, however, is not determined.
Lærum says that they will dispute the claim that there is a danger that the abuse will be repeated in the future.
My client is still to the treatment in the prison, and have a different view on their actions now than in the past. He has understood that he has done is wrong, and how it has been for the offended person in a case, adds the lawyer.
– He regrets very much the life he has lived on the web Review Plus
the Indictment comes in mainly the abuse that has taken place via the Internet, but there are also several of the boys who have met the defendant physical.
The experts have concluded that the man is sane.
Should judge
the Man was regarded as a very promising fotballdommer before he was indicted and arrested. He was arrested the first time in July 2016, but released after some weeks in custody. When committing new abuses. When the police revealed these, he was again arrested and has since been in custody.
in Parallel with the police’s revelations became known in fotballmiljøet, it was quietly taken steps to get the accused man out of the dommerjobben. Dagbladet is familiar with the fact that he really was set up as hoveddommer in a fight at a higher level than he usually convicted, but just days before kick-off he was removed from the mission of their leaders. The reason should have been that they had been familiar with the investigation.
Such was the secret dobbeltlivet to Norway’s worst nettovergriper Dagbladet Plus
