Child porn ‘merits bigger sentences’
Wednesday 26th January 2011, 3:00PM GMT.
Dame Heather Steel
CONVICTED paedophiles in Jersey should face tougher jail terms because of the lasting damage child abuse does to a ‘close-knit community’, a senior judge has warned.
In rejecting a former teacher’s attempt to reduce his sentence for child pornography offences, Court of Appeal judge Dame Heather Steel yesterday said ‘greater severity’ was needed when dealing with offenders in some child porn related cases.
She said that David Roy Forno’s offences were a ‘campaign against multiple victims’, which left some of his victims scared by his online approaches.
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