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Accused 'used child porn sites'
15/02/2005 14:05 - (SA)
Pretoria - Sex crime accused Dirk Prinsloo appears to have often visited websites containing child pornography, the Pretoria High Court heard on Tuesday.
Former police computer expert Danny Myburgh testified that a computer seized from Prinsloo's home had been used to visit several websites whose titles contained the words "lolita", "latina" or "teen".
These three words usually led investigators to child pornography sites, he said.
Websites accessed from the computer included "Lolita's Sex Portal", "Best Links To Real Free Photos", "Bestiality Live", "Banned Illegal Porn Site" and "Cannabise's Pamela Anderson-Lee Website".
The user registered on the computer was "Dirk".
Myburgh also testified about two apparent child pornography pictures found on the computer's hard drive.
They were saved in a folder called "My Pictures" under the name "Lol1" and "Lol2" -- an apparent abbreviation for Lolita.
The pictures appeared to have been downloaded from the internet, he said.
Myburgh told the court that investigations involving internet child pornography were very difficult.
Police were seldom able to prove that websites visited by suspects did indeed contain child pornography as the sites usually disappeared after a while.
Accessed from Prinsloo's computer
He could not therefore state that the sites accessed from Prinsloo's computer did contain child pornography, "but in my experience it is possible they could have."
Prinsloo and his partner Cezanne Visser are standing trial on a variety of charges related to alleged sexual violations of women and girls.
Visser, dubbed "Advocate Barbie" for an apparent likeness to the blonde, busty plastic doll, faces 15 charges and Prinsloo 16.
The charge sheet lists two counts of rape, four of indecent assault, three of enticing a minor to commit indecent acts, one each of fraud, sexual exploitation of a minor and possessing child pornography, two of manufacturing such material, and one of possessing dagga.
Four of their alleged victims were minors - one was 11 at the time.
Prinsloo faces an additional charge of assaulting one of the complainants.
The couple is out on bail of R4000 each.
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