Upper secondary school pupil sentenced for forging 11 medical certificates in Romerike
A Norwegian upper secondary school pupil has been sentenced for document forgery after submitting forged medical certificates to his school. The sentence is 18 days' conditional imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 kroner.
Upper secondary school pupil sentenced to conditional imprisonment for document forgery
A pupil from a Norwegian upper secondary school has been sentenced for forging several medical certificates in order to avoid absences affecting his grade record. This emerges from a recently issued ruling from Romerike and Glåmdal district court, which eub.no reports.
Over a period of just over two weeks, the pupil submitted four forged medical certificates to the school. The purpose was to have the absences approved and thereby avoid exceeding the absence threshold.
In Norwegian upper secondary education, a pupil generally loses the right to a grade in a subject if the absence exceeds ten per cent of the hours in the subject in question. This is stated by the Directorate for Education and Training, which clarifies that the threshold applies to hour-based absence in individual subjects — not the total absence. Sickness absence counts towards the calculation, and documentation from healthcare personnel is only required once the absence threshold has been reached.
The pupil appeared in court and made an unreserved confession. The case was determined as a confession case.
The court sentenced the pupil to 18 days' conditional imprisonment with a probation period of two years and a fine of 5,000 Norwegian kroner.
Source: Google News DK — Crime (da)