SINGAPORE: A man who was found with child abuse videos in his electronic devices was sentenced to 11 months’ jail.
Tou Jen Hau, 49, pleaded guilty to one charge of possession of child abuse material on Monday (June 22).
Police had raided his home on March 6, 2023, and seized his laptop and two hard disk drives.
A total of 13 child abuse videos were extracted from the devices.
The videos depicted children engaging in sexual activity, and exposing their genitals.
Tou sought out the videos for his own sexual gratification and downloaded them from a file-sharing platform.
He also admitted to downloading such material since 2010.
He saved the videos in his laptop, or on the external hard disk drives.
“The accused did this so that (the file-sharing platform) would not automatically allow others to download the pornography from his computer,” said Deputy Public Prosecutor Sean Teh.
The prosecutor sought a sentence of between 13 and 14 months’ jail for Tou, noting that one of the videos found in his possession was almost an hour long.
For the possession of child abuse material, an offender can be jailed for up to five years, fined, or caned. - The Straits Times/ANN
