Europe’s biggest ever paedophile ring is smashed after cops bust gang who specialised in sharing sick child abuse images on WhatsApp
May 11, 2017 · By Laura Burnip for www.thesun.co.uk
EUROPE’S biggest paedophile ring has been smashed by cops after swapping hundreds of thousands of child abuse images over Whatsapp.
Police have made 39 arrests in 10 countries and seized 360,000 files, including documents with details of attacks on young children dating back two decades, including their addresses.
Cops uncovered hundreds of thousands of abuse images dating back two decades
Cops said the sick images revealed abuse of babies and children up to the age of eight subjected to humiliating treatment and brutality.
Seventeen suspects come from Spain, six were arrested in Colombia, four in Italy, two in Germany, three in Bolivia, two in Costa Rica, two in Paraguay, one in Chile, one in El Salvador and one in Portugal.
Cops carried out raids in countries across the world about the Europe-based ring
Authorities expect to make more arrests after uncovering 96 paedophile Whatsapp groups
Cops expect there will be further arrests as they investigate a further 96 paedophile groups discovered on Whatsapp.
The major op was the first joint international crackdown on child sex abuse images in the EU.
