A man who took zoomed in pictures of a naked toddler playing in a fountain has avoided jail.
Onismo Zhakata photographed the three-year-old in Warrington town centre in June last year, telling police he was trying to take a selfie instead. Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, said a member of the public flagged down police officers on Horsemarket Street on June 2, 2021, and told them he had seen a man taking pictures of young children playing nearby.
The person had seen Zhakata sitting on a bench and taking pictures, zooming in on a three-year-old girl who was naked in the fountain at the time. The child’s mum shook her head as the 43-year-old was handed a suspended sentence at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday morning (May 10), reports the Echo.
