Court gives home-care substitute 18 months for raping two care recipients

A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for raping two care recipients through sexual acts other than intercourse while working in home care, DR reports.

The verdict was handed down at Odense District Court. The man, who Ritzau reports is an Iraqi citizen born in Denmark, was also ordered to leave Denmark and barred from re-entering for six years. He is banned from working in care for three years from the date the verdict becomes final.

Ritzau reports that one victim was a 91-year-old woman in Odense, whom the man visited as a care substitute. The other was a partially paralysed person with multiple disabilities in Nyborg.

He must pay compensation of 14,000 kroner and 15,000 kroner to the two victims, respectively. He has appealed the verdict and challenged the order that he be held in custody during the case.