VETERAN TRIAL ATTORNEY Mark Eiglarsh said his client Adil Mohammed, who was charged with ten counts of possessing child pornography images on his cell phone, did not wilfully possess the images.
In fact he said his client came about the images quite innocently as they “automatically downloaded” onto his phone’s “camera roll.”
Eiglarsh made the statement days after reports were made that Mohammed was slapped with the charges.
In an interview he revealed that he was retained immediately upon Mohammed’s arrest on August 6 and handled his bond hearing, in which he was released on a US$25,000 bond.
In a release sent to the media on Sunday, Eiglarsh said the images automatically downloaded onto Mohammed’s phone after he visited “various lawful adult websites on Whatsapp” saying that it was a Whatsapp group.
Eiglarsh said Mohammed immediately disabled the feature after he learned that there were child pornography images on his cellphone.
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