LONDON, Ont. - While waiting in jail last fall, Lavdim Sadiku professed love for his teenaged girlfriend in letters and on the phone.

Yet he had plastered obscene photos of her on her Facebook page.

The dark and angry relationship Sadiku had online and in person with the 16-year-old girl landed him in prison yesterday for two years with three years’ probation tacked on — with orders to stay away from her.

Sadiku, who had no criminal record, pleaded guilty to seven charges that included distributing child pornography through cellphone photos he took, then published online during one of the couple’s frequent arguments.

Assistant Crown attorney Karen Bellehumeur detailed Sadiku’s rap sheet. Most of his crimes centred on the girl he had dated sporadically for a year until last summer.

The 15 obscene photos were taken at a house in White Oaks. The girl posed topless and was involved in a sexual act with herself.

After a fight, Sadiku threatened to post them all over their school.

At a party, they had an argument at a bus stop because she refused to go with him to have sex. He grabbed her, but she refused to go and broke off the relationship.

Later, he sent a text message to her, directing her to look at her Facebook page.

Sadiku had posted three of the photos on her page, and one was placed as her profile photo. He had set up a folder called “My Slutty Side” and placed the two other photos in it.

The girl deleted the pictures, but later, in another text message, he taunted her with “I still have those pix, ha ha,” and suggested he would send them everywhere.

He deleted her Facebook account and warned he was going to “punch out” another male.

“You will pay for what you said and it won’t be pretty,” he wrote in one text.

The girl called police and gave them 18 pages of handwritten notes of text messages she copied down from him.

Sadiku was charged with criminal harassment. The child pornography charge was added after the London police cybercrime unit determined the images of the girl fit the definition.

Sadiku admitted to taking the photos but denied uploading them onto Facebook or any computer.

The pictures were later found on his personal computer in the recycle bin icon.

His cellphone also was searched.

The girl told police Sadiku often told her he would kill any man she talked to or dated.

In June 2009, Sadiku was released from custody on bail with an order not to communicate with the girl.

The next month, police were alerted to three e-mails sent to her from Sadiku posing as a family member and threatening her.

He has been in custody since July 23, 2009, but hasn’t stopped trying to talk to her despite a court order.

Between September and November last year he called her 15 times and mailed her five letters. He would profess his undying love, then ask her if she felt guilty.

The letters were turned over to police.

There was another phone call and a letter last December. The letter included hand-drawn images and promises he would change.

Other charges from January 2009 involved Sadiku posing as his older brother to book a London hotel room, then using the room as a base for a group of young burglars to break into hotel rooms. On the same night, a vehicle was stolen from the parking lot.

Sadiku’s lawyer, Damon Hardy, said his client escaped from Kosovo with his family in 1999. He is out of school and a few credits shy of his Grade 12.

McGrath ordered a DNA sample and banned Sadiku from possessing weapons for 10 years.

He was ordered to take anger management counselling and stay away from the girl.

McGrath also ordered Sadiku have no access to computers.

“You seem, among other things, to have an addiction to electronic communication,” the judge said.

Jane Sims is The Free Press justice reporter.

jane.sims@sunmedia.ca