Read an interesting article about Norway's tendency to break apart families over literally nothing, kidnap children and arrest parents...all stuff that's basically decided in advance with no real investigation. They'll put a heavy focus on taking away immigrant's kids especially and ask the kind of extremely leading questions of kids that would taint evidence in any other country, but it seems to be one of those situations where if they're investigating someone at all they've already made up their minds as to what the outcome will be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/norways_hidden_scandal
Oh, and it's in this thread because one of the top people doing this to other people's kids was found out to be another victim of one of those tragic pedophilic disorders. Well...not
just found out, it was known about for a couple of years and no one in authority felt like looking into it.
Fast forward to April this year, and one of those two experts – the male psychiatrist - reappeared in the same courthouse.
This time, though, he wasn’t in the witness stand.
He was in the dock.
He was sentenced to 22 months in jail - after admitting he had downloaded nearly 200,000 images, and more than 12,000 videos, showing the sexual abuse or sexualisation of children.
The court heard that some appeared to show infants being raped.
Norwegian police were initially tipped off that the man was downloading illegal child abuse images in 2015.
But it wasn’t until early 2017 – a year and a half later – that they investigated and then arrested him.
He confessed that he had been viewing such material for 20 years.
The expert hasn’t been named in the Norwegian media – to protect the privacy of his own children.
But until his arrest he played a key role at various levels in Norway’s child protection system - as an expert witness in individual cases such as Cecilie’s, and more recently as a member of the prestigious Child Expert Commission, which evaluates all independent protection reports.
His conviction puts the spotlight back on a system which has been heavily criticised by some parents – and by leading Norwegian professionals in the childcare field – for being too quick to put children into care, splitting families unnecessarily.
He gets to keep his own kids, of course, and it doesn't seem anyone actually wants to review any of his treatment or decisions about other people's kids based on this.
Great country. I can see why they're always so smug.