31 Mar, 2017 @ 12:25
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Police in Spain arrest more than 100 in child porn crackdown

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guardia-civil-recurso-42-1-1476350557156MORE than 100 people have been arrested in Spain in an internet child porn crackdown.

Guardia Civil announced today that they had traced 450,000 images and videos showing sexual abuse of babies and children aged up to 14.

Some 90 houses had been raided and more than 400 hard discs and other computer materials were seized, leading cops to cuff 102 individuals.

Their nationalities and identities remain unknown.

At least 10 of the child victims have so far been identified.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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