Revenge porn: First woman sentenced for offence is spared jail

revengeporn1Paige Mitchell, 24, is handed a six-week suspended jail term for posting explicit images of her girlfriend on Facebook.

A “vindictive” woman who posted sexually explicit pictures of her girlfriend on Facebook “to hurt and humiliate” her, has become the first female to be sentenced under new revenge porn laws.

Paige Mitchell slapped her girlfriend and uploaded four explicit pictures complete with insulting captions, after a row where she accused her partner of “looking at other women”.

Her revenge left her girlfriend embarrassed to walk down the street for fear people had seen the intimate photographs, a court heard.

Mitchell, aged 24 and from Stevenage, was handed a six-week suspended jail term after pleading guilty to assault and the new offence of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress.

Sentencing her at Stevenage Magistrates’ Court, chairman of the bench Bette Hindmarsh said: “Posting the photos on the internet was a highly vindictive invasion of privacy.

“It was done with the intention of humiliating and hurting your victim.”

The court heard the lesbian couple had been in a tempestuous relationship for more than a year before the fight.

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