A Jamaican man, who was held with child p*rnography on his cellphone earlier this year, was on Thursday sentenced to five years and eight months in a US prison.
According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, Anthony Carl Spence, 45, arrived at the Orlando International Airport from Jamaica on February 6, with a smartphone that had videos of a toddler being s*xually abused and a young child engaged in s*xually explicit conduct.
Reports from US media said Spence allegedly told investigators that one of the two videos found on his phone was shown to a class of Jamaican school children “in order to determine whether any of them had ever been molested”.
He also claimed a girlfriend in New York sent him one of the videos and the other he had forwarded to a relative as a warning that her child “could be acting in a similar manner”.
When asked about the incident involving the Jamaican school children, Spence reportedly told investigators that he was not employed by the school, but his nieces attended and he’d gotten permission from a teacher to show students one of the videos, the complaint said.
Spence, who told agents he had five daughters, allegedly admitted sending the videos to a number of friends and relatives while in Jamaica, including “women with children,” court documents said.
Spence was arrested and charged in federal court with a count of possession of child pornography and was found guilty by a federal jury on July 26.
He should have receive more time. Nastiness
I don’t think it’s just a case of them not believing him…seems to me that the issue was none of his explanations checked out!!On the surface,they seemed plausible but ultimately even so,still unacceptable.
How dare this perverted scum a tarnish the country name with him lies. You should get more time.
Ugly Muthafuqqa! Why only 5 years, and not 50 years?
Phucka I Kno a bwoy who always watching these type a videos and I warn him about it he says is people sending him Dem or FB him watch it on mi tell him seh him a straight pervert an him can get jail time fi it
Lava need fi see this n stop post dem pon him page. Him nuh affi be a pervert but most Jamaicans don’t know it’s against the law to share it.
I cannot fathom any circumstances that would make me think it is ok to receive or send child pornography.
It is clear that if you share it you are also complicit in the abuse of children. In fact no-one had better send any of that nastiness to my phone or else I am going to report them for it.
The other thing people do not know is that if someone comes to your home and use your computer to download these images or video, you as the homeowner can be charged. Sames applies to someone using your Wi-Fi to download or share child pornography. The people who do these things do not want to use their own internet/computer because the know the police monitor these transfer, so they use other people internet/wi-fi or cruise neighborhoods looking for open Wi-Fi.
Di man look like a child predator yow sad eno…. mi nuh like dem ting yah nuh hurt di picney dem none tall yea.