Baby porn case: Sentencing update

Update

PLETTENBERG BAY NEWSFLASH - After almost 3 years, the Plettenberg Bay computer engineer, who pleaded guilty to just short of 19 000 counts of possession of child pornography, is set to take his place in the dock for a final time today (Tuesday 7 November.)

William Beale (39) will appear in the Thembalethu Regional Court in George where he is expected to be sentenced.

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.

More information to follow as it becomes available.

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