No jail for child porn downloader

Saturday 5th April 2008, 12:00AM BST.

A MAN who downloaded thousands of pornographic images of children has been spared jail.

Steven Edward Facchino (22) was given a six-month suspended prison sentence yesterday in the Royal Court after admitting having videos and pictures of young girls and boys aged between ten and 18 on his computer.

Facchino, who worked as an IT assistant at De La Salle College, was given a further six-month suspended sentence for publishing an obscene story about child abuse on the internet.

But the Royal Court also heard yesterday that all evidence of the images was lost when police damaged the hard drives on Facchino’s computer. This meant that the only evidence police had of the pornography was Facchino’s own admission to them when he was arrested.

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