California man jailed for 18 years for operating US 'revenge porn' site


A California man who posted thousands of sexually explicit photos of men and women on a "revenge porn" website was jailed for 18 years on Friday. -- PHOTO: TNP FILE.

LOS ANGELES (AFP): A California man who posted thousands of sexually explicit photos of men and women on a "revenge porn" website was jailed for 18 years on Friday in what was described as the first case of its kind in US criminal history.

San Diego man Kevin Bollaert, 28, was convicted in February of running a website that hosted more than 10,000 explicit photographs.

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