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Norwegian police and NCIS during their investigation
in Gambia.

PHOTO: ARKIVFOTO: INGER ANNE OLSEN

Teacher convicted of pedophile assault
An Oslo teacher has been sentenced to two years and
nine months in prison for abusing a 12-year-old boy in
Gambia. 
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The offenses took place over several years. The
58-year-old teacher sexually abused the boy and gave
him football boots, money and a passport in exchange.
The boy's father trusted the Norwegian since he was
also a teacher.

The offender told the boy's parents that he did not
have children and wanted to adopt the child that he
abused three times a day during his Gambian holidays.
The boy's father accepted his son's dropping out of
school since he ostensibly learned so much from being
with the Norwegian teacher.

The case is the first where a Norwegian citizen is
charged in Norway for assaulting a child in Africa.
The maximum sentence is 20 years in prison. 

The man was sentenced to three and a half years by
Oslo Municipal Court in 2005 but Borgarting Court of
Appeals acquitted the teacher. The professional judges
found the acquittal incorrect and rejected it and on
Wednesday the teacher was found unanimously guilty by
a new court of appeal. The sentence was reduced as the
case has lasted over three years.

In November 2003 Norwegian tourists reported the
suspicious behavior of the teacher and the young
African boy after observing them in a hotel in Bakau.
Oslo police district and the National Criminal
Investigation Service (NCIS) mounted a thorough and
costly investigation.

The boy will receive NOK 75,000 (USD 12,500) in
compensation for the assaults, and the ostracism
suffered in his homeland. 

Defense counsel Arne Seland has not rejected the
thought of appealing this decision to the Supreme
Court.

Aftenposten's Norwegian reporter
Per Annar Holm
Aftenposten English Web Desk
Jonathan Tisdall
 
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