Police arrest a Ukrainian man (shirtless in handcuffs) who they allege raped his eight-month-old daughter and took pictures which he sold on Australian pornographic websites

Peter Scully was sentenced to life imprisonment for child sex offences in The Philippines. The former Melbourne businessman is considered one of the world’s worst paedophiles

Authorities in the Philippines have arrested David Timothy Deakin (pictured), who is suspected of exploiting dozens of children using webcams to sell videos, images and live streams

American David Deakin appears unconcerned as police raid his home in The Philippines. Officers found children’s underwear, shoes, cameras and bondage cuffs in his townhouse

Vitaly Chubaevsky, deputy chief of the Ukrainian national cyber police department, told reporters: ‘The man was raping his child when the mother was away or was working in the garden.’

Another Ukrainian police spokesperson said the man’s phone was ‘full of evidence’ and had been found hidden in the abused baby’s room among her toys.

Australian cyber police spotted pictures of the baby which were circulated on Australian and Russian pornographic websites and notified their Ukrainian counterparts.

The man’s arrest is part of increasing cross-border cooperation in the fight against the international production and sale of child exploitation material, much of it with links to Australia.

Some of the sexual offending is committed by Australians in foreign countries and filmed for distribution internationally while other material is produced by foreigners targeting the lucrative local market.

While Europeans produce content for Australian paedophiles the digital trading of film and images on the dark web goes back and forth.

David Deakin’s arrest coincided with what is potentially one of the largest ever seizures of illicit digital content in the Philippines. The material he allegedly produced was viewed in Australia

The Ukrainian man accused of raping his daughter was arrested in an early morning raid at his home while his family was still sleeping. Pictures of his arrest were released online by police

The mother (pictured) of a Ukrainian girl allegedly raped by her father so he could produce pornography for Australians only learned about what was happening from the police

Among the world’s worst paedophiles is Australian Peter Gerard Scully who has been found guilty of raping and trafficking children in the Philippines as part of a global child pornography syndicate.

Scully has been charged with scores of other offences including child murder, torture and the sexual abuse of children as young as 12 months old. 

Some of these attacks were allegedly filmed and uploaded to pay-per-view pornography sites known as ‘red rooms’ for a largely European audience.

Scully, 55, is serving life in prison along with his partner in crime Carme Ann Alvarez.

The former Melbourne businessman and his co-offenders are still facing trial over the production and distribution of films of the rape, torture and murder of Filipino children.

Scully was arrested in 2015 for the alleged production of films distributed over the dark web to customers paying up to $10,000.

One of those films, Daisy’s Destruction, allegedly shows an 18-month-old girl tied upside down by her feet while she is sexually assaulted and bashed by a masked and naked woman.

Deakin sitting on his bed where he allegedly handled online sharing of sex videos of children

One prosecutor told a court she wept when she viewed the film.

After Scully was sentenced to life in jail the Department of Social Welfare and Development Regional Director Nestor Ramos said: ‘Three years of fighting for justice of these counts feels more than worth it.’

‘This evil guy Scully caused the children to live in unspeakable horror, with their childhood stripped away, and nightmares they still get up to this day. This conviction can somehow bring them peace.

‘However, the fight is not over.’

The Philippines is major producer of online material sexually exploiting children, much of it directed at Australian viewers.

Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Debbie Platz recently revealed it cost as little as $40 to watch a child in a South-East Asian be raped online.

‘The volume of Australians who are uploading, sharing and downloading child pornography is actually skyrocketing,’ Assistant Commissioner Platz told The Australian.

Australia’s worst paedophile Peter Scully (pictured) is facing life in prison, after being found guilty of raping and trafficking children as part of a disturbing global child porn syndicate

Australians can get online and order a child, and order what they would like to have happen to that child, and that could be anything from undressing of a child and seeing them naked, right through to torture, rape and in the most ­extreme cases… the murder of a child.’ 

Last year images emerged from inside the home of an American citizen suspected of exploiting Filipino children to produce videos, still images and live streams using a webcam to an international audience including Australians.

David Timothy Deakin’s arrest came with a warning that offenders in The Philippines were continuing to exploit dark corners of the internet so that paedophiles in Australia, the US and Europe could pay to view their evil work.

At the time of 53-year-old Deakin’s arrest Filipino authorities said they had seized what could be largest ever amount of digital child pornography ever located in the country.

Pictures of Deakin sweating profusely while police searched his home were shown around the world. 

Other images showed children’s underwear, bondage equipment, toddlers’ shoes, cameras and stacks of hard drives scattered throughout Deakin’s house.

Such well-publicised arrests are complemented by the domestic apprehension of those who view the material produced in countries such as The Philippines.

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