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 08 October 2008 00:59 BST

Eight British children safeguarded from sexual abuse

Wednesday, 05 Mar 2008 13:49
Police were able to identify the children and safeguard them
Eight British children have been identified and safeguarded from sexual abuse as a result of an international police investigation.

The two-year operation, led by the FBI and the Queensland police in Australia, has lead to 400,000 indecent images being seized worldwide after police managed to infiltrate an online newsgroup.

Police were able to safeguard the British children after tracing their addresses in the UK, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) said.

As a result of the investigation 22 people were arrested last week, including two men in the UK, as police attempted to dismantle the paedophile ring.

Six other men from Britain have previously been jailed for trading and receiving indecent pictures through the online network.

Paul Griffiths, head of the Victim Identification Team at CEOP said today: "Whilst it can be difficult at times, this work is vital to identifying and locating children who are being subjected to horrendous abuse.

"In this case, eight children aged between six and 14 have since been protected from further abusive situations," he said.

"It's important to remember that these children were not missing. They were located in the place where they were supposed to be safe – their own home – where their abuse was recorded and made available over the internet to satisfy sickening sexual desires of a deviant group of individuals."

A further 20 individuals have been arrested from the US, Canada, Australia and Germany for their role in the paedophile network.End of story


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