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Jonathan is a highly intelligent and this is an honest mistake on his part. God has forgiven him and let's move on. All of you morons here surfs porn sites daily and visits prostitutes, so don't try to portray yourself as better than Jonathan.
Jonathan have learnt his lesson and would have realised surfing child porn is very risky cause the Internet is not so anonymous. He should know that going to corrupt third world countries like Cambodia and Phillipines to satisfy his sexual desires would have been safer.
No jail, but ex-MOE scholar expelled from university for child porn by Ng Jing Yng 05:55 AM Dec 21, 2010SINGAPORE -
Former teaching scholar Jonathan Wong could have spent up to 10 years in jail for possessing child pornography but he was not placed behind bars. His university, though, has expelled him.
Appearing at the York Crown Court yesterday, Wong was sentenced to a six-month imprisonment suspended for two years - which means he will not be jailed if he keeps within the law in those two years.
It is believed the jail term was suspended as Wong had pleaded guilty and did not have a prior conviction.
The court also ordered Wong to be placed under eight months of supervision and to be listed on the sex offender registry for seven years. He is disqualified from working with children, court officers told MediaCorp.
But the supervision order will now have to be reviewed, after the University of York said in a statement that its council "has permanently excluded Jonathan Wong on grounds of gross misconduct".
At the 40-minute court hearing, Judge Steven Ashurst said he would leave it to the university to address Wong's status as its student but this would mean relooking his supervision order, as Wong might then no longer be residing in the United Kingdom.
Wong has been suspended from the university since pleading guilty to 17 charges of possessing child pornography videos.
In its statement, the university added that it "deplores all instances of child pornography and abuse ... It's a matter of great regret that a member of the university has been convicted of these criminal offences".
Wong was given a suspended jail term of six months for each of the charges, to be run concurrently if he falls afoul of the law.
MediaCorp understands the prosecution had applied for a sexual offences prevention order against Wong and for his computer, seized previously by the police, to be destroyed.
Such an order serves to protect the public "from serious sexual harm from the defendant", according to UK's legislation and would have prohibited Wong from doing anything stated in the order for a minimum five-year period. But it was rejected by Judge Ashurst.
Court officers told MediaCorp that Wong's lawyer submitted several references in mitigation and asked for two files relating to school material to be retrieved before the computer was destroyed.
The judge agreed that the computer equipment be kept for the next 56 days for legitimate files to be reacquired first.
There is no indication that an appeal will be filed by either the prosecution or Wong's lawyer.
Last month, the Education Ministry revoked Wong's teaching scholarship and he will need to pay liquidated damages in accordance with his scholarship agreement.
Jonathan have learnt his lesson and would have realised surfing child porn is very risky cause the Internet is not so anonymous. He should know that going to corrupt third world countries like Cambodia and Phillipines to satisfy his sexual desires would have been safer.
No jail, but ex-MOE scholar expelled from university for child porn by Ng Jing Yng 05:55 AM Dec 21, 2010SINGAPORE -
Former teaching scholar Jonathan Wong could have spent up to 10 years in jail for possessing child pornography but he was not placed behind bars. His university, though, has expelled him.
Appearing at the York Crown Court yesterday, Wong was sentenced to a six-month imprisonment suspended for two years - which means he will not be jailed if he keeps within the law in those two years.
It is believed the jail term was suspended as Wong had pleaded guilty and did not have a prior conviction.
The court also ordered Wong to be placed under eight months of supervision and to be listed on the sex offender registry for seven years. He is disqualified from working with children, court officers told MediaCorp.
But the supervision order will now have to be reviewed, after the University of York said in a statement that its council "has permanently excluded Jonathan Wong on grounds of gross misconduct".
At the 40-minute court hearing, Judge Steven Ashurst said he would leave it to the university to address Wong's status as its student but this would mean relooking his supervision order, as Wong might then no longer be residing in the United Kingdom.
Wong has been suspended from the university since pleading guilty to 17 charges of possessing child pornography videos.
In its statement, the university added that it "deplores all instances of child pornography and abuse ... It's a matter of great regret that a member of the university has been convicted of these criminal offences".
Wong was given a suspended jail term of six months for each of the charges, to be run concurrently if he falls afoul of the law.
MediaCorp understands the prosecution had applied for a sexual offences prevention order against Wong and for his computer, seized previously by the police, to be destroyed.
Such an order serves to protect the public "from serious sexual harm from the defendant", according to UK's legislation and would have prohibited Wong from doing anything stated in the order for a minimum five-year period. But it was rejected by Judge Ashurst.
Court officers told MediaCorp that Wong's lawyer submitted several references in mitigation and asked for two files relating to school material to be retrieved before the computer was destroyed.
The judge agreed that the computer equipment be kept for the next 56 days for legitimate files to be reacquired first.
There is no indication that an appeal will be filed by either the prosecution or Wong's lawyer.
Last month, the Education Ministry revoked Wong's teaching scholarship and he will need to pay liquidated damages in accordance with his scholarship agreement.
