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100 BRITONS UNDER INVESTIGATION INTO LIVE STREAMING OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.
Britains NCA ( national crime agency ) are investigating 100 people in connection over live child sexual has it occured in the phillipines, 17 have been arrested in over 12 countries in the investigation named Operation Endeavour. British police have joined forces with Australian and US investigators in a two-year operation focusing on what the UK's National Crime Agency calls "a significant and emerging threat", particularly in developing countries. Andy Baker from the NCA said "This investigation has identified some extremely dangerous child sex offenders who believed paying for children to be abused to order was something they could get away with" "Being thousands of miles away makes no difference to their guilt. In my mind they are just as responsible for the abuse of these children as the contact abusers overseas." "Protecting the victims of abuse is our priority and that means attacking every link in the chain, from dismantling the organised groups who are motivated by profit through to targeting their customers."
Another 3 investigations are at present underway with 139 britons said to be involved amongst the 733 suspects. Northamtonshire Police visited registered sex offender Timothy Ford and searched his computer and found obscene videos and images of children which he was paying for to view "live to order" via the philippines. Ford was preparing to leave the UK and move to the Philippines and set up an internet cafe there. Instead he was arrested and jailed for eight and a half years in march of 2013. Thomas Owen who was another member of the paedophile ring was found to have nearly 4 million images of child abuse victims on his computer was arrested and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in july of last year.
In a statement the NCA said, "The use of webcams to stream live abuse, particulaly from the developing world is a significant and emerging threat according to the NCA's CEOP ( child exploitation and online protection ) command. Extreme poverty, the increasing availability of high speed internet and the existence of a vast and comparatively wealthy overseas customer base has led to organised crime groups exploiting children for financial gain" 15 children in the age range of 6 to 15 have been identified as being victims of sexual abuse and rescued, Many of them having been sold to paedophiles by their relatives. Of the 17 suspects arrested in the UK five have been convicted, nine are still in the process of being investigated , one has been released without charges being brought and two are dead. ( apologies for there only being two )
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