A St Andrew man has been fined $500,000 or 12 months in prison in a case of revenge pornography, which ended in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday.
Donovan Coley was found guilty of malicious communication under the Cybercrime Act 2015 for a crime he repeatedly committed in August 2016.
Attorney-at-law Carolyn Reid with a fiat to prosecute, led evidence that on several dates, Coley sent four obscene photographs and more than 200 WhatsApp messages to the cell phone of the current boyfriend of the complainant.
Coley, with whom the complainant had an intimate relationship, had received via WhatsApp, the lude photos and videos of her.
The convict decided to release the photos and videos after the complainant sought to end their relationship.
The prosecution said when the complainant first attempted to walk away, Coley threatened to expose her photos and so she decided to reconsider.
Eventually, however, she decided to cut ties with the accused and it was then that she discovered that the nude photographs and videos she had sent to him had been sent to her current boyfriend.
She made a report to the police and was able to identify the photographs on the cell phone of her boyfriend as being those she had taken and sent only to Coley.
She also identified the cell phone number used to send the photographs and video to her current boyfriend as that belonging to the accused.
Coley was sentenced by Parish Judge Vaughn Smith.
That’s good! I’m glad this was taken seriously!
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Wonderful!
Great Job girl teach others to do the same.
And unu say Jamaica don’t have laws :nerd :ngakak :ngakak
Laws work for those bent on getting justice.
Yes PP but will she be getting a dime off the half a million fine?? Seems to be going to the court, so why didn’t the Judge made an order for damages to the victim. Well now she must file a multi mil $ lawsuit n ensure him wuk to pay it off fi him rest of life for the immature bs stunt he pulled.
exactly. The victim should have gotten at least a million dollars.
A good a shoulda more dan dat… lowe di girl if she nuh want yuh… some man a just bitch star…f*ka yuh! b4 yuh tink bout fi duh dat shit again fi try hurt someone tink bout dat.