for dealing with child pornography, and which condemned him for this, he used an original -and effective – line of defense: he threw the blame for the trends of the side effects of the medicines he was taking for the disease of Parkinson’s, from which she was suffering.
Jeremy Αλινγκτον-Smith, former professor of the University of Durham, it was revealed that for five years, filming secretly women with short skirts and shorts in public places, as well as other to take off their clothes, using a mobile phone camera attached to the bottom of a door.
Also, as discovered by the police, was “downloaded” to the computers in the house, and the office of the university, thousands of photographs of children who were abused sexually, while he had designed more than 4,000 similar images. He had even created a “manual paedophile’, which contained advice for the sexual abuse of children, which had included some of his plans.
The court which examined his case, set him free, but forced him to three years ‘ community service under close supervision. The decisive argument of the former university, who had resigned in disgrace after revelations, it was that it developed hypersexuality and inability to control his sexual impulses, because of taking medicines for Parkinson’s disease.
He had also requested medical assistance to overcome the problem, but without great success, as demonstrated by his behavior. He claimed that he didn’t realize he did anything illegal, as it is not abused, in fact, no child. He said that whatever he did, it was only for his own sexual satisfaction and argued that he could not know the ages of the children in the pictures had “downloaded” from the internet.
“It is important that the public understand why a man who committed offences for which they would be expected to go straight to jail, not going to go,” said judge Christopher Prince, according to the british “Telegraph”.
The judge acknowledged that the defendant, after a brilliant academic career, during which “he had a great contribution in the field of astrophysics”, in fact, was affected by the pharmaceutical treatment. Eminent doctors who were called as witnesses in the trial, confirmed that such mental side effects are likely to occur in parkinsonian patients.
The judge warned, however, the astrophysicist that if you come again in the same misconduct, the next time will not go to prison.
“Drugs for Parkinson’s made me a pedophile”
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