Sending sexually explicit videos of children lands WhatsApp group admin in jail


Sri Lankan Hindakumbure Charindu Dilshan Rajapaksha distributed 943 obscene films in a group chat between March 16 and July 26, 2020.

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A man who was an administrator of a WhatsApp group when he sent out 17 clips involving child sexual abuse was jailed for 18 months and two weeks on Friday (March 31).

Sri Lankan Hindakumbure Charindu Dilshan Rajapaksha, 30, who was married and has a three-year-old child, had pleaded guilty on March 2 to various offences that included distributing child abuse material.

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