279:(he lives in the Bas-Rhin region) criminal court to one year in prison and placed on the sex offender registry in France for holding 27,000 images and one thousand videos of child pornography, including images of children being raped. Joosten admitted to offences dating from 2014 to May 2020 after being exposed by
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tombé dans une forme d'addiction dont il n'a pas réussi à sortir. Il luttait contre ses pulsions négatives sans parvenir à y échapper. Cela nous montre la complexité de l’être humain. Jan est un collègue très apprécié et il vivait avec ça. Cela rend humble de découvrir cette addiction, cette fragilité.
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Nous sommes tous tombés de haut. Il n'y avait aucune suspicion de ce genre, aucun problème avec les étudiants. C'est une affaire moralement très choquante mais qui ne remet pas en cause les grandes compétences pédagogiques et scientifiques de Jan
Joosten. C’est surtout profondément triste. Jan est
287:) as part of a lengthy investigation. Joosten downloaded the images over a six-year period. He was 'relieved to be arrested'. He described his addiction to pornographic images and videos of children as a "secret garden" that contradicted who he is as a person.
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On his conviction, he was not immediately incarcerated. His sentence would be supervised, and he would have to complete a three-year programme of treatment. He was prohibited from any activity bringing him into contact with minors. Joosten has four children.
337:"The Syriac Language of the Peshitta and Old Syriac Versions of Matthew. Syntactic Structure, Inner-Syriac Developments and Translation Technique", Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 22 (Leiden, Brill, 1996)
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After these qualifications, Joosten worked as
Professor Old Testament at a school of theology in Butare, Rwanda. He then served as a pastor for six years in Belgium and worked at the
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Joosten obtained a licentiate in theology in
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590:"Curriculum vitae of Joosten"
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