According to the judge, these are “unbearable” photos, with “very young children (…) sometimes babies”. A man in his thirties, school leader in Seclin (North), was sentenced to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, this Tuesday, January 14, for possessing thousands of child pornography images and sharing them on social networks.
At the hearing, he admitted to possessing and sharing images, indicating that he had suffered from an addiction to child pornography since he was 21. But he insisted that he had not had sexual relations with a minor, contrary to what he had bragged about online.
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.
The court handed down a sentence below the requisitions and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment, including one year under the electronic bracelet regime and two years of suspended sentence, a treatment injunction 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 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,” the mayor of Seclin, François-Xavier Cadart, told the audience.
-The man was arrested in mid-November 2024, at the same time as three other men across France, during a dragnet. The four individuals are suspected of distributing child abuse images on the encrypted Telegram messaging service, some of which were produced during rapes and sexual assaults committed against minors around them.
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. Some members presented themselves as “producers of videos of sexual abuse committed against minors around them”, the Brest prosecutor’s office indicated during the raid.
The identity of around “thirty targets” as well as “digital evidence” of their offenses had also been transmitted to “partner foreign police services”.
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