Sharing child pornography photos illegal – AG

Anil Nandlall

Attorney General Anil Nandlall says that persons distributing sexually explicit images of children while claiming they are trying to raise awareness about child pornography are just as guilty as the makers and could be held accountable.

“That which they are trying to prevent they themselves are doing or are contributing to… Ignorance of the law is not a defence to anything. You can’t claim you don’t know…  They need to look at the Sexual Offences Act, which deals with the indecent exposure. It has a whole regime of offences which many may not have seen,” Nandlall told Stabroek News.

His comment comes in the wake of the recent circulation on BlackBerry Messenger and Facebook of a photograph depicting a female child engaged in