Court says he undressed and caressed a sleeping fellow inmate
Mika, 27, a contestant from Helsinki in last autumn's Big Brother reality-TV show, was fined for sexually abusing a sleeping fellow contestant on Tuesday. The Espoo District Court ordered him to pay 75 day-fines, which amounted to a total of EUR 675.
The judgement resulted from a situation where Mika was seen to take off Sorella's trousers after she had fallen asleep next to him. He then pulled a blanket over himself and Sorella. The incident was shown on television at the time and was repeated from a DVD in the courtroom.
The case has generated considerable interest in the tabloid media, and has probably done no harm to the ratings of the current Big Brother series, the third such localisation of the format in Finland. Big Brother Suomi 2007 was launched on Sub-TV in late August and runs through until December.
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