16 children saved from child abuse in Australia’s nationwide crackdown

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Sydney, Oct. 23,2020 (Xinhua/Naija247news) Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested 44 men and rescued 16 children from harm in a nationwide crackdown on alleged child abuse offenders.

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In a statement released on Friday, AFP said that the alleged offenders are facing 350 charges of possessing child exploitation materials.

The year-long Operation Molto was launched when the Australian Centre for Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) was referred to a law enforcement report showing thousands of offenders with a cloud storage platform to share abhorrent child abuse materias online.

The operation has led to arrests in every Australian state, with alleged offenders aged between 19 years and 57 years; employed in a range of occupations, including construction, transport, law enforcement and hospitality.

“Arresting offenders and putting them before the court is only half the battle,’’ AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said.

“Viewing, distributing or producing child exploitation material is a crime.

“Children are not commodities and the AFP and its partner agencies work around the clock to identify and prosecute offenders.’’

In the past 12 months alone, the ACCCE has intercepted and examined more than 250,000 child abuse material files.

Between July 2019 and June 2020, 134 children were removed from harm 67 domestically and 67 internationally as a result of AFP investigations, the statement said.

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