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The man in his 40s was sentenced this spring to 19 years in prison when the Gulating Court of Appeal found him guilty of abusing some 200 children over a five-year period.
The abuse took place in such a way that he paid the child’s caregivers in the Philippines to commit abuse while watching the child live on the Internet.
The prosecution also appealed the verdict to the Supreme Court because the man in both the district court and the court of appeal had been acquitted of the human trafficking charge.
The Supreme Court concluded Friday that the man was sentenced to 21 years in prison and not prison. During the dissent, the court also ruled that the man should not be convicted under the provisions on human trafficking.
– He thinks that the sentence is too strict and that he has been sentenced for things that he has not done, says the defender of the man, the lawyer Torbjørn Sognefest, to Bergens Tidende.
The man also demanded a deduction from the sentence because he had been subjected to a body search up to 617 times while in custody from 2016 to August this year. The Supreme Court finds that the man has been subjected to degrading treatment and gives him a 309-day deduction for custody.
The man was an active politician in what was then Hordaland until he was arrested in 2016. He then resigned from all political positions.
