Briton must pay porn victim.A UNITED States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. judge has ordered a British man convicted of possessing child pornography Child pornography is the visual representation of minors under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity or the visual representation of minors engaging in lewd or erotic behavior designed to arouse the viewer's sexual interest. to pay about pounds 175,000 to a woman photographed as a child while being sexually abused. Connecticut judge Warren Eginton said his ruling was the first criminal case in the US in which someone convicted of possessing illegal images - but not creating them - was required to pay compensation. The case involves Alan Hesketh who was sentenced last October to 6 1/2 years in prison for possessing and distributing nearly 2,000 photographs of child pornography. The resident of Stonington, Connecticut The Town of Stonington is in New London County, Connecticut in the southeastern corner of that U.S. state. It includes the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck and Wequetequock, and the eastern half of the village of Mystic (the other half being in the town of Groton). , was a vice president of Pfizer. Pictures of the victim as a child being subjected to sexual abuse turned up in Hesketh's collection. |
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