Toulouse: the retired professor had 119,000 child pornography files
Arrested by the Toulouse police, a retired professor spent his days downloading child pornography videos. He was tried by the Toulouse Criminal Court.
119,160 child pornography files integrated in the space of one year. Investigators from the departmental security department for the protection of minors had no trouble identifying the 75-year-old man who is hiding behind this number which is cold in the back. Placed in custody, this retired English teacher has always recognized by the images of naked children.
At the helm of the Toulouse Criminal Court on Friday, the septuagenarian with a strong British accent explains: “I have never had a normal libido. These images obsessed me, but I never went beyond the virtual stage. I also consulted a psychiatrist in 1992 to try to understand. “
“9,300 downloads per month. 330 per day. We have rarely seen such a frequency. It means you were there from morning till night. At the end of the chain, there are abused children. It’s not virtual! », Retorts the president of the tribunal. *
“I bitterly regret not having taken into account the suffering of these children. This era is revolutionary. It must be my age, I tell myself that the libido is declining, ”tries to reassure the man from Wales.
Conditional sentence and compulsory care
“He was a teacher for years, which means he was in contact with many children. That same evening, he was in front of his computer downloading this dismal content. We are talking about children between the ages of two and twelve, it’s cold in the back! “Thunders the prosecutor. It requires 10 months in prison with a probationary suspension.
Me Séverine Faine emphasizes the awareness of his client: “He does not try to minimize, he is ready to assume the consequences of these acts. The court follows the requisitions of the public prosecution and pronounces its inclusion in the file of perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses (Fijais). The defendant is now permanently banned from exercising any activity related to minors and must undergo treatment.