A Nairobi court has convicted a 71-year-old German man of child pornography.

 Thomas Scheller was found guilty on three charges of trafficking, indecent acts with kids, and child pornography and sentenced to 81 years in jail.

PHOTO | COURTESY Thomas Scheller

Scheller, 73, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for trafficking, 15 years for an indecent act with a child, and seven years for three charges of child pornography before Chief Magistrate Caroline Njangi.

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The German national, suspected of entering the country illegally, was initially accused of defiling a minor in Kisumu County's Nyalenda district between March and April 2020.

PHOTO | COURTESY Thomas Scheller

He was also accused of recruiting, transporting, and harbouring a 13-year-old minor for fraud exploitation and displaying a pornographic video to two young boys.

Throughout the proceedings, he claimed that he was wrongly accused of the crimes and that he only intended to help the 13-year-old kid and her mother.

Scheller, who allegedly eluded a police dragnet in Kwale and escaped to Kisumu, where he committed the murders, was captured outside the German embassy in Nairobi, according to police.