A Spanish man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail over the suicide of a teen he met on-line.
The 60-year-old was discovered to have harassed the boy by sending him a whole lot of messages on WhatsApp, a few of a sexual or aggressive nature.
The 17-year-old teenager dedicated suicide in December 2016 within the Castellón area of jap Spain.
On the day of his demise, the suspect "despatched him greater than 119 messages with intimidating and threatening content material in lower than three hours", the court docket stated in a press release.
The teenager had requested the person to cease contacting him, warning that "if he continued like this, he would commit suicide".
Judges stated that the 60-year-old was "absolutely conscious of the anguish and discomfort" he was inflicting and that there was a "excessive chance" the teenager would commit suicide.
The person had threatened to share the WhatsApp messages and blackmail the boy for utilizing grownup web sites, the court docket added.
Along with the jail sentence, he was ordered to pay €173,000 in damages to the boy's household for ethical prejudice.
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