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Norway's royal family found itself embroiled in an intensifying scandal Tuesday after the son of the country's crown princess was arrested on suspicion of rape. Marius Borg Hoiby, 27, was arrested Monday on a preliminary charge of having 'sexual intercourse with someone who is unconscious or for other reasons is unable to resist the act,' police in the capital, Oslo, said in a statement early Tuesday.
Police said the suspicions relating to the August incident included domestic abuse. He has also pleaded guilty to charges of having made a death threat against a man in separate incident. And Borg Hoiby has pleaded not-guilty to separate charges related to two past relationships. According to police, when he was arrested Monday Borg Hoiby was in a car with the alleged victim from the August incident.
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