https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A former Norwegian cabinet minister was charged on Wednesday with sexually abusing three asylum seekers over a period of several years, prosecution authorities said. https://www.thelocal.no/20181128/norway-ex-minister-charged-with-sexual-abuse-of-asylum-seekers Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:11:54 +0100 norway-ex-minister-charged-with-sexual-abuse-of-asylum-seekers A care worker has been charged with sexually abusing 15 children in an asylum centre in southern Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20170227/norway-man-charged-for-abusing-15-children-in-asylum-centre Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:46:52 +0100 norway-man-charged-for-abusing-15-children-in-asylum-centre A 66-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday for a series of online sexual assaults perpetrated on children in Norway and the Philippines. https://www.thelocal.no/20161208/norwegian-man-gets-eight-years-for-the-sexual-abuse-of-62-children Thu, 08 Dec 2016 10:09:44 +0100 norwegian-man-gets-eight-years-for-the-sexual-abuse-of-62-children Norwegian police have filed charges against 51 individuals involved in a grotesque paedophilia ring thought to be one of the largest child sexual abuse cases in the nation’s history. https://www.thelocal.no/20161121/police-break-up-massive-norwegian-paedophilia-ring Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:47:31 +0100 police-break-up-massive-norwegian-paedophilia-ring On Monday morning, a 66-year-old Norwegian will appear in Bergen District Court to face charges of child sexual abuse, including having ordered the abuse of Filipino children that was live-streamed over the internet. https://www.thelocal.no/20161031/norwegian-man-charged-with-abusing-62-children-in-norway-and-philippines Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:10:26 +0100 norwegian-man-charged-with-abusing-62-children-in-norway-and-philippines A second grade student at the Gakori school in Alta was subjected to extreme bullying on Tuesday when he was stripped from the waist down, hung up by the feet and then had rocks thrown at him. https://www.thelocal.no/20161026/7-year-old-norwegian-boy-stripped-hung-upside-down-and-pelted-with-rocks Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:29:01 +0200 7-year-old-norwegian-boy-stripped-hung-upside-down-and-pelted-with-rocks Police believe a man in his 20s from Tromsø used the internet to sexually exploit around 60 children. He is also charged with the physical sexual abuse of several children. https://www.thelocal.no/20160920/norway-man-used-fake-facebook-profile-to-sexually-exploit-boys Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:36:17 +0200 norway-man-used-fake-facebook-profile-to-sexually-exploit-boys A 31-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Oslo District Court on Wednesday for aggravated assault against his four-week-old daughter. https://www.thelocal.no/20160914/norway-father-gets-eight-years-for-vicious-assault-on-his-infant-daughter Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:22:31 +0200 norway-father-gets-eight-years-for-vicious-assault-on-his-infant-daughter Gjøvik District Court on Tuesday sentenced a former teacher to 12 years behind bars for sexually abusing 108 children. https://www.thelocal.no/20160524/norway-teacher-sexually-assaulted-108-children Tue, 24 May 2016 14:56:24 +0200 norway-teacher-sexually-assaulted-108-children A man in his 20s has been detained in Denmark in connection with an investigation into an extensive abuse case in the central Norway region of Trøndelag. https://www.thelocal.no/20160413/norway-man-nabbed-in-denmark-for-child-sex-abuse Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:59:21 +0200 norway-man-nabbed-in-denmark-for-child-sex-abuse A man in Norway has been charged with injecting his 10-year-old son with anabolic steroids over a period of four years. https://www.thelocal.no/20150929/norway-man-injected-steroids-into-10-year-old-son Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:00:59 +0200 norway-man-injected-steroids-into-10-year-old-son A psychiatrist in Norway has called for rape to be divided into different categories, with some -- such as when a man penetrates a woman he has gone to bed with while she is sleeping -- classed as less serious. https://www.thelocal.no/20140424/norway-psychiatrist Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:11:00 +0200 norway-psychiatrist More than a fifth of girls in Norway experience sexual abuse before they reach adulthood, according to a new survey by the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress. https://www.thelocal.no/20140318/fifth-of-young-girls-in-norway-face-sexual-abuse Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:35:00 +0100 fifth-of-young-girls-in-norway-face-sexual-abuse The deputy mayor of Oslo has generated a wave of support after revealing that her stepfather repeatedly raped her from when she was seven years old. https://www.thelocal.no/20140304/i-was-raped-when-i-was-seven-says-oslo-deputy-mayor Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:48:00 +0100 i-was-raped-when-i-was-seven-says-oslo-deputy-mayor A Catholic priest on trial in Bergen for having sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl has claimed in court that he was unaware of the age of consent in Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20140108/catholic-priest-had-no-idea Wed, 08 Jan 2014 10:29:00 +0100 catholic-priest-had-no-idea A British man and his Norwegian partner have been charged with the brutal murder of the woman’s one-year-old daughter. https://www.thelocal.no/20140102/woman-and-british-partner-abused-and-killed-baby Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:45:50 +0100 woman-and-british-partner-abused-and-killed-baby A Catholic priest has been interrogated by police in Norway for abusing a 15-year-old girl in his parish. https://www.thelocal.no/20130904/catholic-priest-grilled-over-15-year-old-abuse Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:43:33 +0200 catholic-priest-grilled-over-15-year-old-abuse A Catholic priest has admitted to abusing a 15-year-old girl in Bergen in the latest sex scandal to hit the church in Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20130821/catholic-priest-admits-to-abusing-15-year-old Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:24:00 +0200 catholic-priest-admits-to-abusing-15-year-old A 72-year-old woman has been sentenced to three years in jail after a court found that she had made her husband’s life a living hell for at least 41 years. https://www.thelocal.no/20120530/woman-jailed-after-four-decades-of-spousal-abuse Wed, 30 May 2012 16:33:00 +0200 woman-jailed-after-four-decades-of-spousal-abuse A 72-year-old woman from northern Norway has been charged with abusing her husband for more than 40 years. https://www.thelocal.no/20120515/woman-abused-her-husband-for-40-years-prosecutors Tue, 15 May 2012 13:24:00 +0200 woman-abused-her-husband-for-40-years-prosecutors