A DOCTOR who raped dozens of sufferers and secretly filmed examinations for nearly twenty years has been jailed in Norway.
A court docket on Friday sentenced Arne Bye, 55, to 21 years in jail in a case that has shocked the Scandinavian country.
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Former GP Bye was discovered responsible of committing 70 counts of rape and sexual assault throughout gynecological examinations of his sufferers between 2004 and 2022.
He was additionally condemned for 80 cases of abuse of his place as a health care provider.
Near the entire offences occurred throughout medical examinations that Bye carried out on his sufferers while working as a doctor at his medical observe within the small city of Frosta in central Norway.
The court docket within the metropolis of Trondelag banned Bye from exercising his medical career indefinitely and demanded he financially compensate his victims.
A harrowing complete of 94 ladies testified throughout the trial, describing how depraved Bye dedicated a number of acts of non-consensual touching and digital penetration with out medical justification.
The acts all represent rape beneath Norwegian legislation.
Addressing the court docket on Friday, Decide Espen Haug reportedly mentioned: “The suspect’s actions make this case an especially severe one. The actions are unacceptable.
“The defendant’s actions occurred in a spot and setting the place individuals are imagined to really feel secure.
“His actions have undermined public belief within the well being service in addition to docs basically.”
The 55-year-old defendant stood up and appeared calm as the utmost sentence was handed to him.
The sentence matched the one requested by the prosecution.
Bye’s protection had argued for lesser sentence, recognising solely 20 of the rapes.
Bye additionally filmed the assaults.
Cops seized over 6,000 hours of footage throughout their investigation, together with of his gynaecological examinations.
Bye was proven to have inserted a “deodorant-like”, “bottle-like” and a cylindrical object into the ladies – with no medical purpose for doing so.
One girl, talking to the court docket final November, mentioned: “I assumed I used to be going to die”.
One other unnamed girl mentioned she had gone in to her GP’s workplace for a sore throat – earlier than being given one of many invasive examinations.
She advised how she ended up in her underwear on a bench, saying: “I assumed that he’s my physician, so I did as he mentioned.”
The indictment towards Bye says the alleged assaults “occurred shortly and unexpectedly” throughout the examinations.
Issues have been raised about him as way back as 2006 – by one other physician within the gynaecology ward at an area hospital.
Considered one of Bye’s sufferers, who was there for additional remedy, mentioned her physician had massaged her genitals throughout the examination.
Bye was in a position to maintain his job till the next yr when costs have been filed.
HOW YOU CAN GET HELP:
Girls’s Support has this recommendation for victims and their households:
- At all times maintain your cellphone close by.
- Get in contact with charities for assist, together with the Girls’s Support dwell chat helpline and companies reminiscent of SupportLine.
- In case you are at risk, name 999.
- Familiarise your self with the Silent Answer, reporting abuse with out talking down the cellphone, as a substitute dialing “55”.
- At all times maintain some cash on you, together with change for a pay cellphone or bus fare.
- In the event you suspect your associate is about to assault you, attempt to go to a lower-risk space of the home – for instance, the place there’s a method out and entry to a phone.
- Keep away from the kitchen and storage, the place there are more likely to be knives or different weapons. Keep away from rooms the place you may turn into trapped, reminiscent of the toilet, or the place you is perhaps shut into a cabinet or different small house.
In case you are a sufferer of home abuse, SupportLine is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm to 8pm on 01708 765200. The charity’s e-mail help service is open weekdays and weekends throughout the disaster – messageinfo@supportline.org.uk.
Girls’s Support supplies a live chat service – out there weekdays from 8am-6pm and weekends 10am-6pm.
You can even name the freephone 24-hour Nationwide Home Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247.
