Son of Princess of Norway Arrested in Suspicion of Rape
The 27-year-old son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in her 20s. Håkon Mosvold Larsen/NTB/AFP/Getty Images CNN — The 27-year-old son of Norway’s Crown Princess has been arrested on suspicion of rape, Norwegian police said Tuesday. Marius Borg Høiby was born before his mother Mette-Marit married Crown Prince Haakon and became a princess in 2001. He was arrested for violating the criminal code which concerns “sexual intercourse with someone who is unconscious or for other reasons is unable to resist the act.” Police specified that he is accused of carrying out a “sexual act without intercourse” on a victim “said to have been unable to resist the act.” The alleged victim is a woman in her 20s who did not know Høiby before she met him on the day of the alleged incident, her lawyer Hege Salomon told CNN. She was not in a relationship with Høiby. Høiby was arrested late on Monday night, police said, and was being held in a
