The investigation saved 146 children worldwide, including six in New Zealand and 79 in Britain. In Australia, 51 children from six state...
The investigation saved 146 children worldwide, including six in New Zealand and 79 in Britain. In Australia, 51 children from six states have been taken to safety, including 23 in Queensland and 10 in South Australia.
In one case in Austria and Hungary, the suspects were accused of abusing their own children, aged 6 and 8. And in Spain, a suspect both possessed and disseminated child sexual exploitation material while making covert sexual images of adults without their consent, officials said.
In some cases, those arrested for possession of the material were later charged with more serious offences. According to New Zealand authorities, an unidentified offender from the South Island of New Zealand later admitted to having “consumed child exploitation material for over 20 years as well as other forms of material harmful like bestiality and torture.
The abuser had traveled to Asia and paid families there to create images of their sexually abused children for profit, the inquest found.
“Although the perpetrator denied engaging in sexual exploitation while abroad, it is likely from the information obtained that he was a sex tourist,” a doorman said. -word of the New Zealand Department of Home Affairs.
In Britain, National Crime Agency officers have arrested 450 people accused of using the platform, and those detentions have often resulted in additional charges.
“Much of this activity took place during the Covid-19 shutdowns, when the majority of young people were at home and offenders had more time to spend online targeting their victims,” said Sarah Blight, agency spokesperson.
The agency found a trend of offenders working in “positions of trust”, including in kindergartens and primary schools, in health professions, as religious clergy or in the military. ‘order. A suspect, who worked as a night shift aide at a children’s home, had hundreds of indecent images of children on his phone, officials said.
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