Update
PLETTENBERG BAY NEWSFLASH - The criminal case against the Plettenberg Bay computer engineer – who pleaded guilty to just short of 19 000 counts of possession of child pornography – came one step closer to completion on Monday when the state and defence presented their final arguments in the Thembalethu Regional Court in George.
Beale was the first South African to have been arrested as part of Operation Cloud 9 which involved cooperation between South African and Belgian police.
The operation was responsible for cracking down on an international child pornography ring linked to a cyber meeting space for paedophiles whose fetishes seem to be the sexual abuse of babies.
Some of the images found included the torture and murder of babies as young as only a few days old.
When Beale was arrested at his seaside home in January 2015 police found sections of files containing thousands of videos and violent assaults as well internet address of more than 300 alleged paedophiles.
He pleaded guilty about 19 000 charges of possession of child pornography in February this year following.
He is currently out on R10 000 bail and relocated to Kimberley to live with his brother and his family.
While presenting her heads of argument state prosecutor Gerda Marx urged the court impose a 20 year sentence.
Read in this week’s edition of the Knysna-Plett Herald of why this case is so shocking and what the prosecution and Beale have to say.
Click here for previous articles:
- 'I know I should feel bad, but I don't'
- Update: Plett baby porn case
- Baby porn case back in court
- Update: horrific porn sex trial
- Baby porn man sentencing setback
- Plett baby porn case: Delay in sentencing
- Plett baby pornographer faces sentence
- Guilty plea to 19 000 porn cases
- Baby porn: Man pleads guilty to 18644 charges
- Plea bargaining afresh in baby porn case
- Baby porn case update
- Baby porn case postponed again
- Plett baby porn case postponed
- Baby porn case: Another postponement
- Activists decry latest child porn case delay
- Horror porn case put on hold again
- Plett child porn case: latest deferment baffles
- 'Baby porn' case: Plea bargain rejected
Read more in Thursday's Knysna-Plett Herald, as well as online.
ARTICLE: YOLANDÉ STANDER, KNYSNA-PLETT HERALD CORRESPONDENT
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