(CMR) After pleading guilty to child pornography almost two months ago Dr. Pierre Michel Pavlov Rameau (49) has received 3.5 years for 12 counts of possession of child pornography before Justice Wood.
He plead guilty to 12 counts of possessing indecent or erotic images of children, each count referring to various quantities of photos and one count of one charge of using an information and communication technology (ICT) network to annoy, abuse, or harass by requesting a female to send him indecent images of herself.
He was originally set to me sentenced on May 17th.
Dr. Pavlov worked at the government owned University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) as an associates professor in the department of Math & Sciences. He was arrested in late March and suspended with full pay about a week later when the university discovered he was being investigated by the police. His employment contract was not renewed during that time.
Many student subsequently came forward to CMR and said that UCCI took no positive action to curtail numerous complaints against the professor dating back years. They called for stricter policies to address this type of behavior. However, the government owned university has made no comments to date on the matter and has refused to acknowledge several related FOI requests sent to them. Despite these criticism the university remained silent until last week when they issued a public statement where they encouraged “silent victims” to come forward with any allegations they may have against him or anyone else.
The stated:
“understand how incredibly difficult it is for survivors to break the silence about their abuse”,
but the college said survivors’ stories are important to piece together the scale of the problem.
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