Japanese football official sentenced for viewing child pornography images | Football News

Masanaga Kageyama was on a flight to Chile for the Beneath-20 World Cup when the crew raised the alarm.

A senior Japanese Soccer Affiliation official has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail time period in France for “viewing youngster pornography pictures” throughout a airplane journey.

Masanaga Kageyama, the affiliation’s technical director, was arrested throughout a visit Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on the best way to Chile final week, in response to Le Parisien newspaper.

It’s believed he was heading to Chile for the Beneath-20 World Cup.

“The details had been found by the airplane’s flight crew, who raised the alarm after noticing that the convicted man was viewing youngster pornography pictures on the airplane,” the court docket prosecutor’s workplace in Bobigny, north of Paris, mentioned on Tuesday.

The court docket sentenced the 58-year-old on Monday to a suspended jail time period of 18 months and a positive of 5,000 euros ($5,830) for importing, possessing, recording or saving pornographic pictures of a minor under the age of 15.

His sentence features a ban on working with minors for 10 years and a ban on returning to France for the interval.

Kageyama can even be added to the French nationwide intercourse offenders’ register.

Le Parisien reported that flight attendants caught him viewing the pictures on his laptop computer within the enterprise class cabin of an Air France flight.

He claimed to be an artist and insisted the images had been generated by synthetic intelligence.

Throughout his court docket look, the report mentioned, Kageyama admitted viewing the pictures, saying he didn’t realise it was unlawful in France and that he was ashamed.

He was held in police custody over the weekend till his court docket look on Monday. He was launched after the listening to.

Kageyama is answerable for implementing measures to strengthen Japan’s soccer groups, together with the nationwide workforce, in addition to educating coaches and nurturing youth gamers.

He was knowledgeable J-League footballer himself and in addition coached a number of J-League golf equipment. He had additionally managed Japan’s under-20, under-19 and under-18 groups.