2024-04-26 23:56:37
As reported by the Klaipėda District Court, a previously unconvicted Klaipėda man was convicted by a criminal order for producing and keeping objects with pornographic content and illegally collecting information about a person’s private life.
In the case, it was established that the accused produced and kept objects of pornographic content and illegally collected information about a person’s private life, that is, he in the period from 2023. February 18 illegally installed a video camera with a memory card in a bar in Klaipėda, in the women’s toilet, and by connecting to the camera via Internet access, he secretly filmed the naked bodies, genitals and buttocks of a female minor and adult women who were not identified during the pre-trial investigation, i.e. produced videos with pornographic content, which depict adult women.
The court also found that the defendant produced and kept objects of pornographic content and illegally collected information about a person’s private life, that is, he in the period from 2023. July until 2023 in August In the toilet room of a cafe in Klaipėda, he illegally installed a video camera with a memory card and by connecting to the camera via the Internet, he secretly filmed the naked bodies, genitals and buttocks of female and male minors, minors and adults who were not identified during the pre-trial investigation.
The Klaipėda district court indicated that the defendant in this case admitted to having committed crimes and regretted his behavior.
“(The defendant – ELTA) said that he bought the camera for himself because he has a young girlfriend. He suspected she might be high on drugs, so he decided to find out for himself and bought a video camera. His girlfriend would go to the toilet and stay there for half an hour and come out inadequate. He wanted to check on her, so he set up cameras in the bars,” the court’s press release states.
According to the court, the accused claimed that he did not record his girlfriend in the videos. It is said that he did not save videos anywhere, he did not accumulate them, he just came to the bar and went online. He had no intention of collecting and viewing, storing or selling the genitals of children and adults.
When sentencing the accused, the court took into account the fact that the accused in this case committed two serious intentional crimes against the freedom of sexual self-determination and inviolability of a person and two minor intentional crimes against morals, one mitigating circumstance of the defendant’s responsibility found in the case, and the absence of aggravating circumstances. The court awarded the accused a final sum of 7 thousand. a fine of EUR.
The accused, disagreeing with the punishment imposed by the court’s criminal order, has the right to submit a request to the court to organize a trial in court within 14 days of receiving a copy of this document.
After examining the case and recognizing the defendant’s guilt, the court may impose a different type or amount of punishment than was imposed by the court’s criminal order. If the accused does not use this right, the court’s criminal order becomes effective, and the court’s criminal order that has become effective cannot be appealed.
2024-04-26 23:56:37