Migrant stormed into apartment - raped 76-year-old

The 22-year-old’s parents came to Norway in the early 90s, and he grew up in the municipality of Elverum. After school, he was not allowed to have any social life, instead, it was a straight path to a Quran school. At the age of 13, he was sent to Kenya and Somalia to be ‘rehabilitated’. In 2021, he returned to Norway where he would assault and rape a 76-year-old woman.

During the recent trial, ‘Mohammed’ sat across from the woman he raped last winter, ‘Kari’. The 76-year-old woman has several health problems, including COPD. The prosecutor began with the facts: Just before 7 am on Saturday, February 15, there was a knock on Kari’s door in a multi-family house near Grorud center. A man unknown to her stood outside, stormed into the apartment, drew the curtains, and then began rummaging through drawers and cabinets.

Kari asked him to stop, but he continued. He took her mobile phone, bank card, and ID card. He also gained access to her Vipps account (the Norwegian equivalent of Swish) and transferred 15,000 kronor to himself.

‘I try to remember, but my mind protects me from remembering the worst,’ Kari said during the trial, as Document.no reports.

Kari does not remember how they moved from the kitchen to the bedroom, but she remembers that the accused was on top of her and raped her. The prosecutor shows the police photo of Kari wearing a nightgown with large bleeding wounds on her legs. She tried to fight back, but the perpetrator was much stronger. During that time, she thought ‘it would be okay if he killed her, because it shouldn’t hurt that much’.

Takes vacuum cleaner with him

After an hour, Mohammed leaves the apartment and takes a vacuum cleaner ‘that a cousin should get’. He sends the 15,000 kronor to a girlfriend ‘whom he had argued with’ the night before and who should get the money ‘for shopping’. After alerting the police, Kari spends the rest of the day undergoing examinations at the rape clinic in Aker. The police manage to arrest the man the same evening.

During a break in the trial, Kari says she wants everyone to know her story ‘because it’s starting to get scary in Norway now’ and she is disappointed that so little press is present. Nowadays, she dares not leave the apartment.