Spanish YouTuber Kanghua Ren sentenced to 15 months in jail, ordered to pay US$22,300 after feeding beggar Oreos stuffed with toothpaste
- Court also bans influencer, known as ReSet, from YouTube for five years
- Ren had posted video of the incident online after being ‘challenged’ by one of his followers
A Chinese-born influencer in Spain was sentenced to 15 months in jail and ordered to pay €20,000 (US$22,300) for posting a YouTube video in which he offered a homeless man biscuits stuffed with toothpaste, a court said on Friday.
Kanghua Ren, known as ReSet, was found guilty of an offence against moral integrity in his video published in January 2017 on his channel and since removed, the Barcelona court said.
He was sentenced to 15 months in jail, which he is not likely to have to serve. Sentences of up to two years are generally not implemented in Spain for first-time offenders in non-violent crimes.
Ren was also ordered to pay the money in compensation to the victim, and his channels are to be closed down for five years.
If I had done this with a normal person, no one would have said a thing, but as he is a beggar people are complaining
“Challenged” by one of his followers, Ren, who was 19 at the time, filmed himself removing cream from inside Oreo biscuits and replacing it with toothpaste.