Rape conviction for Norwegian woman

A 23-YEAR-OLD Norwegian woman was sentenced to nine months in prison yesterday after she was convicted of raping a man.

The Bergen district court also ordered the woman, whose name was withheld, to pay €5,000 in compensation to the man in 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, fell asleep on a sofa in the apartment the woman shared with her boyfriend. He testified that he woke up because the woman was performing oral sex on him. The woman denied any sexual contact, but later admitted contact, claiming it was consensual.

The court said such undesired sexual contact was legally rape, and it was being punished as such.