Nov. 21 (UPI) — Norwegian authorities charged a 26-year-old man with sexual crimes involving more than 300 teenage boys in what some police are calling the country’s biggest sexual abuse case in history.
Prosecutors said the man, whose name was not revealed, targeted the teens over the Internet, at times posing as a young girl to entice the boys to send nude photographs and videos of themselves. The victims ranged in age from 9 years old to 16 years old and were from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
They said once he obtained the images, he would use them to blackmail the boys into sending more images. In all, he allegedly had more than 16,000 videos of underage boys.
It is “the biggest case of sexual abuse in Norway so far,” prosecutor Guro Hansson Bull said.
Police believe he met several of the teens in person and allegedly raped them. The assaults took place between 2011 and 2016.
The charges came about after a two-year investigation into the man.
His lawyer, Gunhild Laerum, said his client “admitted the facts” and said the was sorry for his actions.
