{"id":3954,"date":"2019-10-03T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/sobbing-man-jailed-for-distributing-child-porn\/"},"modified":"2019-10-03T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:21:00","slug":"sobbing-man-jailed-for-distributing-child-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/sobbing-man-jailed-for-distributing-child-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sobbing man jailed for distributing child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sobbing man jailed for distributing child porn<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-attachments.timesofmalta.com\/\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>                                                    A 36-year-old man from G\u0127axaq was jailed for 18 months on Thursday after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing volumes of child pornography involving foreign children.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe man, whose name cannot be mentioned by court order, pleaded guilty to being in possession of the pornographic material on his computers and mobile phones.\u00a0<br \/>\nMagistrate Gabriella Vella heard how the police acted on an anonymous tip off that the man was dealing in such material.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe man, who was seen sobbing in court, pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him, including purchasing the material, which included images and videos.<br \/>\nThe court also heard how none of the children appearing in the pornographic material was Maltese.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe magistrate jailed him for 18 months and placed him under a two-year treatment order so he could receive help for his addiction to such images as well as for his drug addiction.<br \/>\nShe warned him of the repercussions of breaching the treatment order after he serves his time.\u00a0<br \/>\nPolice inspector Roxanne Tabone prosecuted while lawyer Mario Mifsud appeared for the man.\u00a0<br \/>\nSource: TOM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sobbing man jailed for distributing child porn A 36-year-old man from G\u0127axaq was jailed for 18 months on Thursday after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing volumes of child pornography involving foreign children.\u00a0 The man,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-malta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}