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In another flagrant example of the influence of money in the judicial system in the UK, Eton student Andrew Picard escaped jail time despite being convicted of creating and distributing child pornography.

But not only that, UK courts allowed the man to use a fake name in order to protect his wealthy family. The UK blog Pride’s Purge however, released the man’s real name. The child pornographer is Andrew Boeckman, Picard is his mother’s maiden name.

As Pride’s Purge points out, Boeckman comes from a family of extreme wealth. His father is a lawyer named Philip J Boeckman, a high profile managing partner in the London office of a large American corporate law firm, and so, it stands to reason that he threatened legal action until the press was washed of his son’s real name. A search comes up with Andrew Picard in relation to the pornography charges, but Boeckman is all but gone.

Even more damning proof of the influence of wealth on combatting these charges is a since deleted Daily Mirror article, which Pride’s Purge dug up, that refers to Picard’s father by his real name, confirming the connection.

The fact that the connections of his lawyer father Philip, with credentials including Bacardi, Unilever Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, likely kept Andrew out of prison is one thing. But the clear tampering with press integrity over using the defendant’s real name is more disturbing proof of the influence of money—not to mention sexist as it implicates Andrew’s mother’s side of the family only.

Boekman was 17-years-old when he began collecting and distributing graphic child pornography.

The presiding judge couldn’t even state the full charges explicitly, as Boekman’s abuse went so far as to include babies and toddlers. It was "so appalling, frankly I can't bring myself to talk about it,” the judge said.

Prosecuting attorney Cathy Olliver explained how an undercover officer was contacted by Boekman’s username AP16MUK in a “teen” chatroom, for those between 13 and 19 years old.

Picard asked the undercover officer, "Do you want to see pics of boys and girls your age, nude?"

He proceeded to add the officer on Skype and share graphic and disturbing images of a ten-year-old boy and eight and 14 year-old girls.

Boekman was so lewd about the interaction, the officer barely had to ask him anything. Boekman offered a photo of his own face.

Then officers traced him to the Eton school.

"His IP address led police to Eton school in Berkshire where staff were able to identify him as a pupil," Olliver explained.

"He was arrested from school on suspicion of distributing indecent photographs of children," she added.

And for no other reason than he comes from an extremely wealthy family, the presiding Judge Ross spared Boekman jail.

The judge did make the following statements which speak for themselves in the degree and nature of Boekman’s crimes.

"Quite how you found your way into this unpleasant world Mr Picard, the world of chatrooms and exchanging this material, is not clear to me ... All too often in these courts we see the internet and chatrooms providing a degree of assumed detachment in terms of what is said and the material that is viewed,” the judge said.

He reminded the courtroom that child sexual exploitation is never a “victimless crime.”

"Please make no bones about it, these are children, some of them very tiny, and they are being abused and tortured simply to provide sexual gratification, mainly, to adult males. All over the world, too often in the third world, children being made objects of the most appalling abuse. It forms a currency and you played a part in that. You were seeking to obtain your own sexual gratification,” added Ross.

It is worth mentioning that the name used throughout at the above source was Picard, Boekman’s fake name.