A thirty-year-old, school leader in Seclin (North), was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, for possessing thousands of child pornography images and sharing them on social networks.
He was arrested in mid-November 2024 at the same time as three other men across France, suspected of distributing child criminal images on the encrypted Telegram messaging system, some of which were produced during rapes and sexual assaults committed on minors around them. .
The prosecution had requested three years in prison against the thirty-year-old accused of possession, exchange and recording of around ten thousand child pornography files. He insisted that he had not had sexual relations with a minor, contrary to what he had boasted about online, but he admitted to the possession and sharing of images, indicating that he had suffered from an addiction to child pornography since he was 21 years.
Three years of imprisonment
He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, including one year under the electronic bracelet regime and two years' suspended sentence, a treatment order and a ban on activity in contact with minors. He is also banned from using his accounts on various social networks including Telegram for six months. The judge mentioned photos “unsustainable” showing “very young children (…) sometimes babies”.
The town of Seclin, where he had worked for 20 years as a leisure center leader and guide for children in difficulty, filed a civil suit and obtained a symbolic euro. “When these actions were revealed, it was a trauma”underlined at the audience the mayor of Seclin, François-Xavier Cadart. The defendant was arrested during a raid on November 12 and 13 in Finistère, as well as in the jurisdictions of the public prosecutor's offices of Bordeaux, Lille and Bourg-en-Bresse.
These arrests took place thanks to the infiltration, by investigators from the juvenile office (Ofmin) of the judicial police, of several Telegram groups in another investigation. The investigations then focused on groups whose members presented themselves as “producers of videos of sexual abuse committed against minors around them”had indicated the Brest public prosecutor's office, indicating that it had also transmitted to “partner foreign police services” the identity of a “thirty targets” as well as “digital evidence” of their offenses.
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