- The man said he showed the video of his penis to prevent the girl from staring at him
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A British tourist has been given a suspended sentence in France after showing videos of his penis to a nine-year-old girl on a Disneyland Paris shuttle bus – before her father attacked him.
The 52-year-old, from near Birmingham, was on a bus taking visitors to and from the theme park on the evening of January 30 when he showed the footage.
After the girl, from the south of France, told her father, he attacked the Brit, hitting him and breaking his glasses.
When police were called to the altercation, they found the suspect frantically trying to delete images from his phone.
The incident happened on a shuttle bus taking visitors to and from Disneyland Paris
The police then found something Le Parisien described on his phone as ‘trash’, took the unnamed Brit into custody and searched his hotel room.
He initially denied any wrongdoing and pleaded ignorance of the situation, according to Le Parisien.
But when the hotel room, laptop and tablet were searched by specialists, police realized there was more than the phone video shown on the bus, and it finally broke.
The suspect, unknown to British authorities, appeared to regularly visit a naturism site and admitted to performing sexual acts in front of images of naked children.
However, in a bizarre statement, he insisted he showed the nine-year-old girl images of his penis in a bid to stop her staring at him.
He was placed in pre-trial detention pending trial at the Meaux Criminal Court on charges including ‘corruption of a minor under 15 years of age’ and ‘regularly consulting an online public communications service containing the pornographic image or representation of makes a minor available’.
Ultimately, he received a four-year suspended sentence.
He was also banned from carrying out activities involving minors, placed on the sex offenders register and ordered to pay 2,000 euros to the victim’s father for ‘moral damage’ and 372 euros for material damage .