Another jailing for child sex abuse pictures
13 June 2008
Another jailing for child sex abuse
pictures
A Christchurch sickness beneficiary is the
fifth person to be jailed this year in Internal Affairs
Department prosecutions involving child sex abuse
pictures.
In the Christchurch District Court yesterday, Leigh Marshall O’Connor, aged 53, was jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty to 14 charges involving possession and distribution of objectionable publications.
Internal
Affairs Deputy Secretary, Keith Manch, said O’Connor was
detected on the Internet making available objectionable
pictures of sexually posed young girls.
The Department
seized his computer, DVDs and CDROMS from his home and found
over 17,000 pictures, movies and files, mainly of girls aged
between about eight and 14.
“The message must get
through to these offenders that the courts are using the
tougher penalties Parliament provided three years ago,”
Keith Manch said.
“Already this month two similar
offenders got two years and more inside. And back in March a
repeat offender got five years in jail.
“But these do not compare with the harm done to the child victims of this abuse who are exploited to feed this despicable international trade.”
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