THE South African Police Service’s Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offence (FCS) team that is looking into incidents of online abuse of minors has today arrested a Johannesburg man for possession, distribution and manufacturing of child pornography.
The 27-year-old suspect was immediately taken to the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court where he was granted two thousand rand bail and his has been case postponed to 13 April 2016. The man joins a growing list of suspects arrested as part of the police’s Operation Cloud 9, an ongoing police operation formed specifically to investigate the online sexual exploitation of children. The team consists of well-trained investigators from the FCS unit in Gauteng.
The suspect’s porn activities came to light as a result of an arrest in 2014 of a suspect in Antwerp, Belgium, who was found to have been part of a wider ring of 219 individuals worldwide, sharing child abuse images through the use of a software. After receiving information from their Belgian colleagues, the FCS team investigation finally led them to an address in Meredale in Johannesburg, where the suspect was arrested this morning.
During the arrest the police also confiscated two laptops, three cellular phones and two external hard drives for further investigations. The confiscated material may help the police in identifying the suspect’s victims.
His arrest comes just a week after Derek Hunter, a 39-year-old man from Midrand, was convicted by the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court for possession and distribution of child pornography.
VIA - saps.gov.za
The 27-year-old suspect was immediately taken to the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court where he was granted two thousand rand bail and his has been case postponed to 13 April 2016. The man joins a growing list of suspects arrested as part of the police’s Operation Cloud 9, an ongoing police operation formed specifically to investigate the online sexual exploitation of children. The team consists of well-trained investigators from the FCS unit in Gauteng.The suspect’s porn activities came to light as a result of an arrest in 2014 of a suspect in Antwerp, Belgium, who was found to have been part of a wider ring of 219 individuals worldwide, sharing child abuse images through the use of a software. After receiving information from their Belgian colleagues, the FCS team investigation finally led them to an address in Meredale in Johannesburg, where the suspect was arrested this morning.
During the arrest the police also confiscated two laptops, three cellular phones and two external hard drives for further investigations. The confiscated material may help the police in identifying the suspect’s victims.
His arrest comes just a week after Derek Hunter, a 39-year-old man from Midrand, was convicted by the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court for possession and distribution of child pornography.
VIA - saps.gov.za
JOHANNESBURG - MAN ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION, DISTRIBUTION & MANUFACTURING OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY!
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