Suspects in child torture case could get up to ten years in prison

A state prosecutor has asked for sentences of up to ten years in prison for a mother and five other adults involved in a shocking case of child abuse. The adults are believed to have been part of a sect which systematically tortured two boys since birth, locking them up, burning them with cigarettes and cutting them with a knife. The case, involving a 33-year-old woman who posed as a twelve-year-old girl, and later as a thirteen- year-old boy in Norway, has shocked the nation but left much unexplained. The leader of the sect, who is believed to be abroad, has so far managed to escape justice.