The British tourist was on a shuttlebus that takes visitors to and from Disneyland Paris (Picture: Valentin Desjardinsi/Getty)
A British tourist has been spared jail in France after showing pictures of his penis to a young girl.
The 52-year-old was beaten up by his nine-year-old victim’s dad when he showed her images on his phone on a Disneyland Paris shuttlebus.
He was hit on the face so hard that his glasses broke shortly after the girl told her dad what had happened.
When police arrived at the scene on January 30, they found the British suspect trying to delete images from his phone, MailOnline reported.
Police found what Le Parisien newspaper described as ‘trash’ on his phone.
They then arrested him and specialists searched his hotel room, along with his laptop and tablet.
At first the tourist, who is unknown to British authorities, denied any wrongdoing and pleaded ignorance to the situation.
But the 52-year-old cracked after specialists found he regularly visited a naturism site, and he admitted to performing sex acts in front of images of naked children.
A Mickey Mouse statue atop the entrance to Disneyland Paris, where a British man exposed himself to a child (Picture: Ian Langsdon/AFP/Getty)
Even then, he insisted he had only shown images of his penis to the girl in an effort to get her to stop staring at him.
He was subsequently placed in pre-trial detention while awaiting trial in Meaux criminal court.
The Brit was charged with ‘corruption of a minor under 15’ and ‘habitual consultation of an online public communication service making available the pornographic image or representation of a minor’.
He was handed a four-year suspended sentence and placed on a sex offenders register.
He was also banned from carrying out activities involving minors.
In addition to this, he was ordered to pay €2,000 to the victim’s father for ‘moral damage’ and €372 for material damage.
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