Posted on 03/16/2010 9:48:05 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Two Boots photo lab technicians who copied hundreds of pictures of naked or semi-naked schoolgirls from customers' orders escaped jail yesterday.
Thomas Befroy and Alan Hermon hoarded the pictures of girls between the ages of 12 and 17 in a hidden compartment in the lab.
Their collection of more than 1,000 photos, built up over 12 years using a machine in the store, included snaps of teenage girls on holiday or in their bedrooms dressing up before a night out with friends.
The pair were only caught when a phone engineer discovered their stash in eight carrier bags and two boxes.
While many of the snaps were innocent shots of teenage girls, a selection used to prosecute 38-year-old Befroy and Hermon, 49, were classed by police as Level One - depicting nudity or erotic posing but no sexual activity.
One photograph was classified as Level Two, which involves sexual activity between children. Police have been unable to identify the girls in the pictures.
A judge yesterday spared the pair jail, handing them both three-year supervision orders and said they must attend a community sex offenders group.
'I am concerned about the number of photographs, the length of time and the covert and secretive behaviour that was going on as well as the breach of trust,' said District Judge Stewart Black. 'These are serious matters, frankly.'
James Le Grys, prosecuting, told Tower Bridge Magistrates in London of the moment a BT engineer discovered the stash as he installed a new phone line at the store in Surrey Quays, South East London.
'The engineer placed his hands inside [a cupboard] and found several Boots carrier bags,' he said. 'They contained images of a sexual nature. He reported the images to management and they called the police.
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Boots is like a British version of Walgreens. Sundries, pharmacy, photo finishing.
If authorities really wanted to bust them, they could bring a copyright case....
The authorities are studying the pictures VERY closely;they expect to be finished examining the evidence in several years.
“I don’t think that’s a hanging chad...”
“I don’t think that’s a hanging chad...”
Hahahahaha...MOM! Now cut that out!
*Blush*
Two Boots photo lab technicians who copied hundreds of pictures of naked or semi-naked schoolgirls from customers' orders escaped jail yesterday.
Well..., I'll tell you -- these days, those girls would not be developing pictures at the corner drugstore (or wherever) but taking them off digital cameras and sending them on the Internet (doing it themselves) and they would be a whole lot worse than what these guys would have come up with.
What girls and guys send on the Internet nowadays, isn't just an innocent picture (like some home pictures were, years ago), but they show a lot of action going on too.
A lot of this flies under the radar because parents just don't want to address this issue as its going on today.
Also, what idiot stores them at work? Were they masturbating at work also? Because if they were, that's just creepy.
You’d be amazed at what some of these idiots do at “work” if they’re not constantly supervised.
Yeah, if it was illegal to have those types of photos, then it was illegal for them to be brought in and processed and it was illegal for those who took the pictures to take them in the first place.
It seems that we’ve got a long line of guilty parties here...
You would be surprised at what pictures people brought in to be developed, that they took in the first place ... :-)
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