UP: Junior engineer sexually abuses 50 children for 10 years
A junior engineer of the Uttar Pradesh irrigation department has been arrested for allegedly sexually exploiting 50 children for the last 10 years and selling videos and photographs of nefarious acts on the darknet to other pedophiles across the globe.
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He is alleged to have victimized about 50 children in the age group of 5-16 years in the districts of Chitrakoot, Banda, and Hamirpur, the police officials said.
He was arrested from Banda and is likely to be produced before the competent court soon.
During the searches, the CBI has caught eight mobile phones, cash around eight lakh, sex toys, laptop, and other digital evidence carrying a huge amount of child sexual abuse material, the police stated.
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It is alleged that the junior engineer was operational for the last 10 years, mainly contacting and sharing child sexual abuse material with other pedophiles globally using darknet and cloud services abroad, they said.
He is understood to have told the investigators that he used to bribe the children with mobile phones and other electronic gadgets to keep their mouths shut about his vulgar activities, they said.
