(Associated Press) Child abuse investigators have dismantled an organized crime group that live-streamed child sexual abuse to order from the Philippines.
Britain’s National Crime Agency said Thursday that a joint investigation with authorities in the United States and Australia broke up the ring, resulting in 29 arrests people in 12 countries who had paid to watch the abuse.
“This investigation has identified some extremely dangerous child sexual offenders who believed paying for children to be abused to order was something they could get away with,” said Andy Baker, the deputy director of the agency’s command for child protection. “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.”
