A district court has acquitted a young man of rape. The man claimed he suffered from sexsomnia during the relationship.
The couple began their relationship in ninth grade. It ended about a year later. The woman reported the man to police two years after the breakup.
She described around 15 occasions when she woke to alleged assaults. The man said he did not remember the events and had suffered sleep problems since childhood.
A subsequent girlfriend testified about similar incidents while he was asleep. The district court found the sexsomnia claim not disproven and acquitted him. One lay judge dissented.
