Four men involved in the production of a sex film shot secretly in a Luqa garage must pay compensation for the psychological trauma suffered by a woman who was underage at the time. The DVD of her sexual act ended up being sold in DVD shops and then sent to her mother attached to an anonymous letter, with the girl suffering post-traumatic stress disorder as a result. The First Hall of the Civil Court had last year ordered two of the men to pay nearly €33,000 in compensation. However, in an appeal judgment, Chief Justice Mark Chetcuti and Justices Joseph R. Micallef and Tonio Mallia concluded that the other two men, who had been cleared by the first court, were equally responsible for the severe traumatic effect the illicit production had on its victim. The court heard that the girl was in a relationship with one of the four men. As she was having sex with him in 2006, another man was hiding behind a curtain filming the entire episode. The compromising footage was subsequently copied onto CDs and put into circulation via a DVD store run by one of the other men, who had in turn acquired it from the fourth man, the boyfriend’s cousin. One of those copies ended up in the possession...