French Gulf War General Found With 3,000 Child Porn Images Gets Only 10 Months In Jail

A man who downloads 3,000 images of child pornography is one very sick man. And in spite of the fact that those obscene photos were of children from 12 years-of-age down to babies six- months-old, photos that were deemed "unspeakable" by a judge, that massive amount of child porn garnered this man a mere 10 months in jail, along with a small fine.

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Perhaps if this man had just been an ordinary pervert he would have been imprisoned for a very long time, but the fact that this particular individual happens to be 68-year-old Raymond Germanos, a French decorated Gulf War general who claims it was a lapse in judgement due to medical problems, he only received a suspended sentence.

So, these medical problems forced him to download not 1, or 10, or even 100 photos, but 3,000 of them, and of babies? Yes, those 'medical' problems are called major psychological ones, one of which is called pedophilia. Even if he did not act out on it, the fact that he was obviously downloading the porn for some kind of sexual satisfaction makes him one, or at least is a predictor of pedophilia, and who is to say that he wouldn't have, at some point in time, acted out on his sick fantasies.

But should the fact that he's a high-profile individual excuse his vile actions?

The fact that Germanos made a huge contribution to the French military, during his years of service still doesn't change what he did.

He was military spokesman for French forces during the Gulf War before retiring in 2002 and going on to work as an adviser to the president of Cameroon.

Germanos’s numerous decorations include France’s National Order of Merit. He is also a Commander in the French Legion of Honour.

Raymond Germanos, a French military commander who worked with British and other allied forces during the conflict in the early 1990s, pleaded guilty to obtaining thousands of obscene images.

The 68-year-old, who had an unblemished military career which also saw him doing active service in Bosnia, received a ten-month prison sentence and was ordered to pay one euro in symbolic damages to child protection charities.

One Euro? And what about therapy? There's no mention of that, although I hope that was mandated, because he's going to need it. And the man seems to be in denial when all he said was ‘I simply want to say that I regret what I did,’ and blamed it on medical problems. Thankfully he was caught during an Interpol sting, and apparently is married with children.

Let's hope they at least monitor him, and make sure he doesn't come into contact with children under the age of 12.