- The man said he showed the video of his penis to stop the girl staring at him
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A British tourist has been handed a suspended sentence in France after he showed videos of his penis to a nine-year-old girl on a Disneyland Paris shuttlebus – before her father attacked him.
The 52-year-old, from near Birmingham, was on a bus taking visitors to and from the amusement park on the evening of January 30 when he displayed the images.
After the girl, from the south of France, told her father, he attacked the Brit, slapping him and breaking his glasses.
When police were called to the altercation, they found the suspect frantically trying to delete images from his phone.
Police then found what Le Parisien described as ‘trash’ on his phone, took the unnamed Brit into custody and carried out a search of his hotel room.
He originally denied any wrong-doing and, according to Le Parisien, pleaded ignorance of the situation.
But when the hotel room, laptop and tablet was searched by specialists, police realised there was more than the phone video shown on the bus and he eventually cracked.
The suspect, unknown to British authorities, was found to regularly visit a naturism site and admitted to performing sex acts in front of images of naked children.
However, in a bizarre explanation, he insisted that he had shown the nine-year-old girl images of his penis in an attempt to stop her staring at him.
He was placed in pre-trial detention while awaiting trial in Meaux criminal court with accusations including ‘corruption of a minor under 15’ and ‘habitual consultation of an online public communication service making available the pornographic image or representation of a minor’.
Eventually he was handed a four-year suspended sentence.
He was also banned form carrying out activities involving minors, placed on a sex offenders register and ordered to pay 2,000 euros to the victim’s father for ‘moral damage’ and 372 euros for material damage.
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Emily Foster is a globe-trotting journalist based in the UK. Her articles offer readers a global perspective on international events, exploring complex geopolitical issues and providing a nuanced view of the world’s most pressing challenges.
