“‘Terje’, a 31-year-old father of three from Trondheim, is so desperate to rid himself of accusations of incest from his daughter that he will ask that charges be pressed against him in order to clear his name in court… The Trondheim man thus becomes probably the first person in the country to raise incest charges against himself while claiming himself innocent. ‘I am doing this in the hope of getting a fair investigation of my case. So far the child’s mother and aid workers in the child and youth psychiatric sector come with vague accusations against me, without reporting this to the police,’ the man told ANB. The man said the six-year-old’s ‘distorted sense of reality’ had turned his life into a nightmare after the child’s mother and a family therapist believed her story of a father who encouraged her and another young girl to touch his penis.” — Aftenposten (Norway)

While child abuse is a very serious crime, nevertheless accusations and allegations of abuse are sometimes accompanied by sheer hysteria. It can make it difficult to get a fair trial, particularly when it’s not the police but some type of social agency that is intervening in the case. The agency can create pressure without having to prove the truth of the accusation, which is why the man in this story is taking the unusual step of asking for charges to be filed against him. It’s a daring move. On one hand, it makes you think that he must be innocent — would he risk indicting himself if he weren’t confident of proving his innocence? On the other hand, it could also be a brilliant strategem by a guilty party — precisely because he knows that indicting himself will make you think he’s innocent.

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