Category Archive for : ‘UNITED KINGDOM’

October 23, 2020
Namita Singh
Independent

Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested 44 men across the nation on the charges of possessing and producing child abuse material.
Dubbed Operation Molto, the probe was coordinated by the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) and has reportedly removed 16 children from harm after identifying alleged offenders in every Australian state, as well as the Australian Capital Territory.
Culminating in 350 charges on the alleged perpetrators, the year-long operation began when the ACCCE received a law enforcement report showing thousands of offenders were using a cloud

October 26, 2020
Lizzie Dearden
Independent

Survivors of alleged sexual and physical abuse at a children’s mental health unit have vowed to continue their fight for justice after a three-year police investigation ended without charges.
Police said they found evidence that children had been over-sedated by staff at the Hill End Hospital Adolescent Unit in St Albans, between the 1960s and its closure in 1995.
Hertfordshire Constabulary investigated allegations of beatings, mistreatment and sexual abuse, including rape, but said there was “insufficient evidence to support any arrest or prosecution” against former staff.
Survivors are now planning

December 18, 2020
Yaron Steinbuch
NY Post

A British man dubbed “Papa Smurf” who visited schools and nurseries to show off his vast collection of the blue dolls has been exposed as a child rapist — and was slapped with a 16-year prison sentence for his vile crime, according to a report.
Robin White, 65, of Derbyshire was known for driving around in a distinctive van, claiming in 2017 to possess a collection of over 10,000 Smurfs as he embarked on a world record attempt, Derbyshire Live reported.
But under the innocent façade lay a

June 2, 2019
Alessio Perrone
Independent

A paedophile who pretended to be a single mum online to encourage parents to abuse their children, has been jailed for five and a half years.
Samraj Kundi set up an online group called “Open Minded Parents”, where he posed as a single mother who abused her own children, Bradford Crown Court heard.
He then encouraged like-minded paedophiles to do the same. The website has since been shut down.
Prosecutor Nick Adlington said an undercover police officer chatted to “Mistress Sarah” on the website.
Mr Kundi, a 29-year-old from Baildon,

May 23, 2019
Chiara Giordano
Independent

A deputy headteacher who live-streamed child sex abuse videos while high on cocaine and crystal meth, has been jailed for more than two years.
Paul Newbury regularly used the Zoom videoconferencing platform to view, discuss and share the most serious images of young children being sexually abused with other paedophiles – telling one man he was interested in “all ages”.
Undercover officers infiltrated the chat rooms in October 2017 and filmed the 50-year-old sitting naked on his sofa, smoking drugs as he watched a live video of a girl

August 25, 2020
Lizzie Dearden
Independent

A paedophile former Conservative Party campaign manager previously worked as a children’s entertainer in primary schools, The Independent can reveal.
Mark Lerigo was spared jail for possessing indecent images last week after a court heard he was judged not to pose a high risk to children.
The 49-year-old had collected more than 1,500 images, some showing babies and others involving bestiality and torture.
Lerigo, of Coventry, had worked for the Conservatives since 2011 in roles including campaign manager and political agent.
But under the name Mark Andrews, he previously worked as