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‘MMS Doc’ jailed for teen girl sex attacks

A 39-year-old Norwegian doctor has been jailed for ten years for a series of rapes and sex attacks on underage female patients - attacks which he filmed on his mobile phone.

Published: 22 December 2011 13:27 CET

The Eidsivating court of appeal in Hamar found the doctor guilty on four counts of rape, three counts of attempted rape and for performing sexual acts with a minor. 

The doctor, commonly known in Norway as the 'MMS doctor' because of his use of his phone to film the sex acts, was found by police to have pressurized around 20 young girls into having sex with him.

 

The court said there was a significant risk that the doctor would offend again if he was released and that a custodial sentence was merited. The doctor's lawyer, Harald Stabell, said he was disappointed by the sentence:

 

"But he's not exactly surprised," he told newspaper Østlendingen.no, pointing to evidence given by experts that the doctor was a paedophile and sadomasochist. He said there was a good chance that the case would be taken up by the Supreme Court.

 

The man was sentenced to ten years imprisonment earlier in the summer by Hedmarken district court, a sentence now upheld by the higher court.

 

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France taken to European Court over divorce ruling that woman had ‘marital duty’ to have sex with husband

A case has been brought against France at the European Court of Human Rights by a woman who lost a divorce case after judges ruled against her because she refused to have sex with her husband.

Published: 19 March 2021 16:40 CET
France taken to European Court over divorce ruling that woman had 'marital duty' to have sex with husband
Photo: Frederick Florin/AFP

The woman, who has not been named, has brought the case with the backing of two French feminist groups, arguing that the French court ruling contravened human rights legislation by “interference in private life” and “violation of physical integrity”.

It comes after a ruling in the Appeals Court in Versailles which pronounced a fault divorce in 2019 because of her refusal to have sex with her husband.

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The court ruled that the facts of the case “established by the admission of the wife, constitute a serious and renewed violation of the duties and obligations of marriage making intolerable the maintenance of a shared life”.

Feminist groups Fondation des femmes (Women’s Foundation) and Collectif féministe contre le viol (Feminist Collective against Rape) have backed her appeal, deploring the fact that French justice “continues to impose the marital duty” and “thus denying the right of women to consent or not to sexual relations”.

“Marriage is not and should not be a sexual servitude,” the joint statement says, pointing out that in 47 percent of the 94,000 recorded rapes and attempted rapes per year, the aggressor is the spouse or ex-spouse of the victim.

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