Posted on 02/02/2005 6:40:17 AM PST by franksolich
Sentenced for clumsy approach
A 38-year-old man from Arendal has been given convicted after giving his 15-year-old sister-in-law a quick kiss on the mouth and grazing her breast with his hand.
The clumsy sexual approach ended in a 14-day suspended sentence and a NOK 5,000 (USD 788) bill for court costs, newspaper Agderposten reports.
To be sentenced the prosecution had to establish that the accused had carried out a "sexual action", something which has no clear-cut legal definition.
Circuit judge Kari Johanne Bjørnøy ruled that such an action need not aim to satisfy a sexual drive or achieve a sexual sensation, and that the definition must adjust to the moral climate of the time.
The 15-year-old and the accused agreed that the man's hand had brushed against one of her breasts during the quick kiss, something the 38-year-old called "a reflex".
But background behavior towards the man's underage sister-in-law presented more worrying testimony. The accused, wearing only a towel around his waist, had asked his teenaged sister-in-law if she had ever seen a man naked and also asked her if she could sunbathe topless next to him on the beach.
The teenager said she felt the man should have "stuck to her sister".
The defense argument that the accused was just guilty of "clumsy behavior" did not convince the court.
I have to say that this Aftenposten, at least its English-language version, has to rate as one of the finest newspapers in the world. I have no idea what it actually looks like black-ink-on-white-paper in Norwegian, but at least on the internet in English, it is sharp, professional.
"Ping" for the Norway ping list.
Why didn't his brother handle it?
You mean, why didn't his wife (the older sister of the girl) handle it? I'm sure she had a rolling-pin or something handy.
By the way, sir, do you know why the National Review web-site was so fouled up these past several weeks? They hired a new webmaster, I guess, but it was not until yesterday (Tuesday) that the site was back into shape, meaning one missed out on about three weeks of good reading.
"Circuit judge Kari Johanne Bjørnøy ruled that such an action need not aim to satisfy a sexual drive . . . and that the definition must adjust to the moral climate of the time."
I guess it moral climate that allows old men to grope 15 year old inlaws is just around the corner!
He's lucky he's not in the US. He'd get 15 years.
Not an airline story, as first thought...
Interesting online newspaper; the "F" bomb is used in a title on the home page (F*** for the Boondocks)
Yeah, I was going to post that story, sir, but then because of the headline (I adhere to Free Republican rules), I had to ditch the thought.
He must have had bad breath to go with his bad manners.
It is always a pleasure to meet a Texan, sir; next to Nebraska and South Dakota, Texas is my favorite state.
Well, it seems the guy had a lot more "bad" with him than just his bad breath. It should be no wonder so many women are turned off by "approaches" made by men; so few men have any good manners.
Aftenposten is as conservative a newspaper as you'll find in Norway. Dagbladet was/is (still ?) the socialists' rag.
Thanks for the insight sir, because I've been looking at it for a couple of weeks now, ever since I started the "Norway ping list," and its orientation was still ambiguous, vague, to me.
But at least on its web-site, it is a pretty sharp, clear, easy-to-read newspaper, and I heartily recommend it.
I was going to use the story one poster above mentioned, but the headline, though, made it impossible to post on Free Republic (where one of the rules is that one must post headlines exactly as they are, so as to avoid duplicate threads). It was too bad, because it was a good story, but the four-letter word in the headline sunk it.
Put me on the Norway ping list if you can. I'm not Norwegian but my family hosted a Norwegian for a year when I was in high school, and I in turn spent a year there at school, as well as many delightful visits there afterwards.
Done, sir; trying to lengthen this "Norway ping list" is harder than trying to yank a Nebraska rattlesnake out of its hole; even though one already has five or six feet out in the air, well, there's more to it, and one must pull and pull and pull.....
Uh, despite the shortness of the "Norway ping list," I must admit, unmodestly, that if an e-mail received by me is true, the "Norway ping list" was the cause for a new Free Republican to register on this site.
You were fortunate in being in Norway, sir; I understand it is a very hospitable country. Alas, Norway has always been off to the side, wherever I have gone.....an omission I hope to correct some time in the future; not tomorrow, not next week, but some time.
I am fortunate in that people find it easy to like me, and I have no doubt that if I were to approach a Norwegian in Oslo, asking for directions to the Kongens Nytorv, or the Roskilde Domkirke, or Christiansborg, or the Kastellet, or Frederiksborg and the Amalienborg, all ten of them would give me the correct directions, and 9 out of those 10 would insist upon having me in their home for dinner.
Wonderful people, Norwegians.
The email that you received regarding becoming a Free Republican because of the Norway Ping list was indeed correct.
This is my first official post, hopefully it goes over well.
I will also testify to the kindness of the Norwegian’s. On a recent trip there with my mother we visited my Grandfather’s house that is only accessible by boat. When we arrived the local tourist board called up a Norwegian whose family came from the same area. He met us the next day with his wife and boat and happily shuttled us out to my grandfather’s property. His wife made us traditional Norwegian snacks. They were extremely friendly and invited us back to their house for coffee. In fact they even said that we could stay at their summer cottage anytime we wanted. Keep in mind these are people who we had never met before. Needless to say they are very nice people.
You have my sympathy, sir, going into law.
You are a very brave person.
There are two sorts of clients that attorneys have--(a) those who expect the attorney to perform miracles and (b) those who think they are smarter than their attorney.
Those who are (a) end up going away, all upset and angry, and resentful of the legal profession, despite it was their own fault for having abnormally-high expectations in the first place.
Those who are (b) always lose their case, no matter how good it is. I am example #1 here, sir. Two times. And totally, utterly, my own fault, because I "assumed" I was smarter than the attorneys.
Bad mistake.
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