Article: Norwegian woman convicted of raping a man


AP Worldstream
04-27-2005
Dateline: OSLO, Norway
A 23-year-old Norwegian woman was sentenced to nine months in prison Wednesday after she was convicted of raping a man.

The Bergen district court also ordered the woman, whose name was withheld, to pay 40,000 kroner (US$6,400; euro4,960) in compensation to the man in what the Norwegian news media said was the first case of its kind in Norway.

According to court testimony, the January 2004 sexual assault took place when the 31-year-old man, whose name was also withheld, feel asleep on a couch in the apartment the woman shared with her boyfriend.

In court, he testified that he woke up because ...

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