A 22-YEAR-old refugee has avoided jail after admitting showing a neighbour a “vile” video clip of a four-year-old girl being raped.
Ali Jafari, who fled Iran, was living in a hostel at Cross Lane, Great Horton, when he was sent the three-minute clip depicting the clearly distressed young girl in March last year.
But instead of deleting it, he saved it in a password protected area on his phone and showed it to a neighbour, who reported him to police.
In sentencing, Judge Jonathan Rose said it was “not clear which is the real you”, but added that whatever a person’s background, culture or difficulties, it would be obvious that the video was “appalling and disgusting”.
He added that he accepted Jafari had not gone on the internet looking for child pornography, but that a “decent human being would have deleted it immediately”.
He could have reported to the police what his so-called friend had sent him, the judge added.
“But you did not. You put it on your phone where you would know where to find it. You did that because it aroused you sexually, although you refuse to accept that’s the case.”
He sentenced Jafari to a two years in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered that he be placed on the sex offenders’ register for ten years and be subject to a sexual harm prevention order for the same period.