Alpes-Maritimes: out of “curiosity”, he finds himself with thousands of unnameable files on his computer

Curiosity is a bad thing ! According the explanations of Jean-Philippe C., it all started with a simple curiosity. Indeed, this 55-year-old man from Cannes appeared before the Grasse court on Friday February 24. This for a matter of child pornography files in March 2021. This father had been reported on the platform Pharos through the association Point-of-contactas explained Var Morning. We are talking about an alert to the services concerned to downloading 722 files including 466 photos containing child pornography.

This father who lives with his daughter was therefore arrested at his home at 6 a.m. on October 12, 2021. His apartment was searched and everything its computer equipment was seized. “I forced myself to watch some of these painful images where very young children are shown undergoing real sexual torture, rapeuntil acts of zoophilia!“, had explained Laurie Duca, president of the court. According to our colleagues from the Var Morning, 10,000 files erased and 1,500 files remaining were found on the defendant’s computer. Files with keywords like “sexyteen, schoolgirl…“ on search engines.

“It was an attraction for the forbidden, out of simple curiosity…”

The contents files leaves no room for doubt. “It was an attraction for the forbidden, out of simple curiosity, I had the impression of being in the virtual“, he explained to the court. “But what makes you go from curious to collector? There is something almost compulsive about you!“, had then asked the president. “Maybe at some point I enjoyed it“, he then replied. If he escapes the prison sentence, the culprit will still be subject tosocio-judicial follow-up as well asa care order under the supervision of a coordinating doctor.