In 2018, a top Norwegian child protection expert was sentenced to less than two years in prison for possession of 200,000 pictures and 4,000 hours of video depicting children subjected to brutal sexual abuse.
Jo Erik Brøyn, a single man, had purchased 2 babies through surrogacy.
According to an op-ed in the Sunday Guardian Live, co-authored by a former Parliament member, Norwegian police were notified of Brøyn’s possession of this material as far back as 2014. However, Brøyn continued as a child psychiatrist in the CPS system.
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The TSG article goes on to state that Brøyn had recommended “emergency” taking into care of children, and placed them at secret addresses, never to be allowed back to their parents.
Brøyn was a working member of the national “Child Expert Commission” (CEC)
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When Brøyn was arrested for possession of brutal child sexual abuse materials, his children purchased through surrogacy were returned to him while he awaited trial. In open court Brøyn stated that he had "pedophile leanings."
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Incredibly, Brøyn even used his surrogate children as an excuse to ask for a sentence of community service so that he could avoid jail for the child pornography charges, on the grounds that a jail sentence would separate him from the children.
In 2018 the BBC interviewed parents whose children were taken from them by child protection services along with the supervision of Brøyn — who would later admit to using child sexual abuse materials for 20 years, including of infants being tormented.
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