The outcome of Dave Middleton‘s appeal is set down for the Pietermaritzburg High Court on October 13.
The former Ray Nkonyeni Municipality traffic chief was sentenced in the Port Shepstone Regional Court to five years’ imprisonment in May 2018.
At the time, regional magistrate Johann Bester, sitting with two assessors, Amos Ngcobo and Viloshnee Moodley, extended Middleton’s bail, pending the outcome of his appeal.
The case began in 2013, when nude and semi-nude photographs of a smiling 13-year-old, as well as as well as a photograph of what appeared to be a child’s hand holding an erect penis, surfaced on Middleton’s phone.
He was arrested in September 2013.
Six years later – in February of 2018 – Magistrate Bester and his assessors found Middleton guilty on nine of the 31 charges against him.
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