Japanese football official sentenced for viewing child sexual abuse images


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PARIS: A senior Japanese Football Association official has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail term in France after looking at images of child sexual abuse during a plane journey, a court official said Tuesday (Oct 7).

Masanaga Kageyama, the association's technical director, was arrested during a stopover at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on the way to Chile last week, according to Le Parisien newspaper.

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