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Local jailed for child porn A judge delivered a blistering attack on the trading of child pornography in the Ashburton District Court yesterday, before sending a man to jail. Judge Chris Somerville sentenced Rudolf Wilhelmus de Jonge, 57, to three years’ imprisonment, on 26 charges of possessing objectionable material and five of distributing objectionable material. The representative charges related to 7777 images and 305 videos of children engaged in
sexual activity with adults and other children found on computers at de Jonge’s Hampstead address in September. His offending was uncovered following a tip-off from the United States Immigration, Customs and Enforcement Agency. “You know you are going to prison today,” Judge Somerville told de Jonge, before sending a clear message to anyone else engaged in such behaviour. Pointing out the magnitude of the offending, he said at any one
time 750,000 people were viewing objectionable images online, and 200 new images were uploaded every day – which equated to 200 new victims of child degradation every day, usually committed by someone trusted. “These sites are all known – and whoever is doing this will be caught,” Judge Somerville said. “It may take two years but that doesn’t mean they will escape and the punishment is usually imprisonment.”
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He told de Jonge he was the victim of an addiction; that viewing objectionable images was no different to any other form of addiction. He pointed out that offending of this nature usually started with viewing adult images and worked its way down to viewing young children engaged in sexual behaviour, as the addict required increasingly objectionable images to satisfy. “Your need to see fresh material led you to download a peer-
to-peer file-sharing program, where you had to agree to share it with others,” the judge said. “The thing that is so serious is its normalisation – when you watch so much it becomes acceptable to make the images. “Redistribution is a crime in the community by endorsing people’s addictions.”
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