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I have the utmost respect for our lawyers and judges. Some of the brightest and wisest minds sit on the bench. What is baffling to me is the lack of knowledge for some when it comes to the minds of child sex offenders. Or is it that they must use pas...

A man who admitted accessing more than 23,000 items of child pornography was today given a ten month suspended sentence. Wong Li Shan was told in the Supreme Court that, although the material was “abhorrent”, it was on the lowest level of the scale. ...

Campaigners for victims of sex abuse have backed a move to amend the Criminal Code to target “revenge porn”. Elaine Butterfield, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre, said that a law that tackled sexual harassment where compromising ...

A 29-year-old man is to face an extradition hearing after he was charged with child pornography offences in the United States. Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday that the man, from Devonshire, was charged with one count each of possession and receivi...

A man who fought a 14-year legal battle after he was humiliated in public over gay porn has been given $125,000 in compensation. The Supreme Court ruled that Dwight Lambert, who was cleared on charges of importation of obscene material in Magistrates...

A 30-year-old man was sentenced to 2½ years in prison yesterday after he was found guilty of a string of child pornography charges. Daniel Rocha was jailed after conviction on seven charges of accessing pornographic images and videos. Puisne Judge C...

A 69-year-old due to face child pornography charges was yesterday identified as the man found dead in a car this week. Police confirmed that the body of David Aitken was discovered by a family member outside a house on Hidden Lane, Pembroke, on Tues...

A man charged with seven child pornography offences yesterday denied he accessed the images on a laptop seized from his home. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Supreme Court that he could say “with a clear conscience and cert...

A cache of child pornography was unlikely to have been planted on the laptop of a man accused of accessing the material, a computer forensics expert told the Supreme Court yesterday. David Graham, a US expert, told prosecutor Larry Mussenden that a r...

An American expert in internet law hired by the Government to tackle cyberbullying has warned that Bermuda has still to draw up a national action plan to deal with the problem. Parry Aftab, one of the world’s first cyber lawyers and a leader in digit...

A clampdown on an epidemic of “revenge porn” in schools is long overdue, a psychology graduate has warned. Chardonaé Rawlins said that new laws and a standard set of rules to tackle the problem should be introduced across the school system. Ms Rawlin...

A child sex offender is to be released from prison in less than a week, the legal affairs minister announced yesterday. Kathy Lynn Simmons, who is also the Attorney-General, said Melvin Martin will be freed from Westgate prison on Sunday. Charities w...