2024-03-19 13:46:59
Cyberflashing involves sending obscene or nude photos to strangers online. A practice that has only recently become a criminal offense in England.
This is the first time in the United Kingdom that a prison sentence has been imposed for cyberflashing, namely the sending of unsolicited sexual content. 39-year-old Briton Nicholas Hawkes was convicted at Southend Crown Court of sending unsolicited photos of his erect penis to a 15-year-old girl and another woman on February 9. The man from Basildon in Essex has just been detained for 66 weeks – more than a year and two months.
It was thanks to the older victim that the case might be brought to trial. The latter took screenshots of the “dick picks” sent by the man on Whatsapp, then reported them to the police. Nicholas Hawkes was already registered as a “sex offender” by the courts and was previously convicted of exhibitionism and “sexual activity with a child under 16”.
A quick criminal procedure
This conviction comes less than two months following the promulgation of the Online Safety Act, a text aimed at guaranteeing more online security in the United Kingdom. It includes measures targeting Internet users who send sexual images to strangers on social networks, dating applications, SMS or via Bluetooth and Airdrop.
“Cyberflashing is a grotesque crime and the fact that we were able to bring justice to the two victims quickly shows that the new law works,” explains local authorities. at Sky News.
At the beginning of February, the European Union also adopted a directive to “fight violence once morest women and domestic violence.” Among the offenses, we mention in particular the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, cyberpredation, cyberharassment, hate speech of a misogynistic nature, but also “cyberflashing”.
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