Would a native Norwegian have gotten just six months in jail for raping a 13-year-old girl if he were found to have a low IQ? What do you think?
A 21-year-old Syrian man convicted of raping a 13-year-old Norwegian girl in a bike shed will serve just six months in prison after a court cited his low IQ, limited development, and a recent change in Norwegian sentencing law.
Abdelmonem Abdelrazak Al-Yousef was found guilty by Nord-Troms and Senja District Court on March 31 in relation to the rape that occurred during the night of Sept. 7, 2024, near the Harbour Terminal in Tromso.
As reported by Norwegian news outlet Document, the teen victim had left her home during the night and gone into the city center. At the Harbour Terminal, she encountered Al-Yousef and another man. The court said there was little conversation because the defendant spoke only Arabic.
The court found that Al-Yousef first assaulted the girl on a bench near the Edge Hotel before the abuse continued in a covered bicycle parking area belonging to the Harbour Terminal. He also attempted vaginal intercourse, but the judgment said he did not succeed because the victim did not want to.
Al-Yousef, who arrived in Norway from Syria in 2023, initially denied ever meeting the girl and denied being the person seen in surveillance images. He later admitted meeting and kissing her, but continued to deny sexual activity or entering the bicycle area.
Police found semen on the asphalt at the scene, and DNA testing linked it to Al-Yousef. The court rejected his defense, noting it was entirely lacking in credibility.
The court also found that Al-Yousef should have understood the girl was underage. The victim had said she was born in 2008, while a witness said she appeared visibly young and childlike. In a police interview, Al-Yousef himself said she looked small and around the same age as his younger sister, who was born in 2010.
However, the sentence was reduced after forensic psychiatric experts found that he had a mild intellectual disability. One assessment estimated his IQ at 41, although a later report put it in the range of 64 to 75.
The court treated his condition as a mitigating factor and said that, despite being 19 years and 8 months old at the time of the offense, his developmental level could be considered comparable to that of the 13-year-old victim.
The judgment, cited by Utenfilter, said, “In mitigation, the court finds that it must be emphasized that the defendant is most likely no further along in development than the victim, and that he appears to have a reduced understanding of reality.”…
rick says
If a low IQ is enough to get an Arab off from a real sentence for rape or murder then this case can be a legal precedent for 80% of criminal Arabs not only in the Netherlands but throughout Europe. But what about when he is released from jail? Does his IQ magically improve or is he the same sick demented person he was when he raped a 13 year old. So if he does the same thing again does he get another reprieve? What absurdity. At the very lease he should be remanded to a prison/hospital cell for the criminally INSANE. Or the most logical sentence of DEPORTATION back to his home country and let them deal with him. Europeans are too stupid to handle this.
40 rounds says
Yeah, we’re in big trouble then
OLD GUY says
A low IQ now allows an individual to commit rape of a minor with a minimum sentence. That will prevent rape of children, only in your dreams.
Patton says
If only moose slimes with high IQs are going to get real sentences for the heinous crimes these scum bags commit we can be sure that none of them will ever see any real justice. These in bred goat humpers will just continue to skate.
MIGRANT BOB says
He walked all the way from damn Syria, so his iq must be good enough or what.
This is just another day in European left wing courts. The judge will bend every single way she can to help the migrant.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Islam itself stunts mental growth. It discourages, or even punishes, free and skeptical inquiry, and encourages mindless obedience to a seventh (or eighth) century text that provides a Complete Explanation of the Universe and a Total Regulation of Life. And because there is little trust among Muslims, they prefer to marry within their family or clan –“so-called “cousin-marriage” –in order to keep property within the family. Exogamy is discouraged. And cousin-marriage leads not just to a large number of congenital physical illnesses but also to lower I.Q.s. The highest intellectual achievement, if one can call it that, the feat that commands the most respect among Muslims, is the memorization of the entire Qur’an. A hideous waste of time and memory. It would be as if we gave our highest accolades to someone who memorized pi to 400 decimal points.
Parents, keep your kids off Islam. It’s bad for their brains.
gravenimage says
+1
Troybeam says
Inbreeding is the normal in Islam. Do not care how far removed as they say it is still marrying in the same gene pool.
Low IQ, what do you expect, does that mean they should not face punishment for a crime? Nope.
This excuse will be used and has been used too often along with did not know the law, and its within his religious right to rape non Muslims.
Either way Islam needs to be removed from every country that never was Islamic but now the hordes have invaded. Easier said then done.
somehistory says
Some years ago in NY, a mafia scumbag was set to go on trial. He would walk the streets of NYC in his bathrobe and pj’s , mumbling to himself.
Otherwise, he kept a tight hold on his mob, staying in charge.
This muzzie scum knew what he was doing. An “iq” of a child doesn’t mean the child does not know what he’s doing is wrong. A four year old, eight year old, ten years, knows when they are going against what Mommy told them about the cookie jar.
The “court” has not rendered justice for the rape victim. Other victims unknowingly await the release of this muzzie rapist who knows now that he can claim stupid and escape real punishment.
gravenimage says
Norway: Muslim migrant gets just six months in jail for raping 13-year-old girl because he has a low IQ
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Just sickening–he was not too mentally disabled to rape a child. Will he be deported after hes serves his absurdly short sentence? Don’t count on it…
jerry glenn says
Norway surges in the European Islamopandering derby.
Andrew Blackadder says
Im not sure what is worse that an actual low IQ muslime was allowed to stay in Norway or that he was a low IQ moron that didn’t know raping a wee girl is not a good thing to do.
He will be out and about in a few months as EU Courts dont think a sentence of 6 months actually means 6 months which makes me wonder why they bother sentencing him to 6 months when the Judge KNOWS he will be out in 3 or 4…Meanwhile who thinks about the wee girl in question… not the Judge that’s for sure.
My beautiful European Cultures are being destroyed from within by useful idiots thinking they are being compassionate when that’s like taking care of the rats in your basement.
I left Europe/UK decades ago… Thankfully.