Courts Saturday February 9, 2008

MAS pilot fined over child porn

MELBOURNE: A Malaysia Airlines (MAS) co-pilot was convicted and fined yesterday by an Adelaide magistrate's court with bringing child pornography into Australia.

According to the Adelaide Advertiser's website, the 25-year-old was charged with importing the prohibited item via three video files on his personal computer.

Customs officers arrested the man at the Adelaide International Airport on Thursday, after finding the video files containing child pornography.

Magistrate Simon Smart fined the co-pilot A$5,000 (RM14,500) and ordered his laptop seized.

“The material is repugnant and abhorrent ... any decent-minded person would be so affected by it,” Smart was quoted as saying by the website.

The newspaper said the co-pilot's computer was searched after he flew into Adelaide on a MAS flight from Kuala Lumpur. – Bernama