Child pornography

Sebastian Edathy, a former rising star in Germany's Social Democratic Party, has confessed during his trial to downloading indecent photos and videos of children from the Internet, using his official government laptop in 2013.

According to a Deutsche Welle report, following his confession on Monday, Edathy was handed by the Verden District Court a fine of 5,000 euros.

Five arrested for child pornography

BELGRADE -- Five persons have been placed under arrest for possession of a large amount of pornographic material made through the abuse of children and minors.

Five suspects arrested for child pornography

BELGRADE -- Five persons were arrested this morning on suspicion they committed criminal acts related to child pornography, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has said.

He stressed the arrests came as part of the ongoing police operation dubbed "Armageddon."

Conference warns about online dangers for children

BELGRADE -- This year saw the largest number of children discovered to have been victims of abuse over the internet, and many of the cases concern child pornography.

This was stated by head of the department for combating cyber crime at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sasa Zivanovic.

A total of 101 suspects have been arrested on charges of trading in child pornography over the past three years, according to figures submitted in Parliament by the head of the Greek Police’s Cyber Crime Unit, Manolis Sfakianakis.

Officers of Greek police’s cyber crimes unit on Friday detained a 36-year-old man alleged to have made sexual advances to minors over the Internet.

The suspect is believed to have used social networking websites to approach young girls and convince them to send him sexually explicit photographs of themselves which he is said to have shared with other web users.

Google defended Monday its policy of electronically monitoring its users' content for child sexual abuse after it tipped off police in Texas to a child pornography suspect.
      

The homes of five men were searched as a result of a large police operation against child pornography, authorities said on Monday.

The searches, four of which were in Athens and one in Thessaloniki, led to a 43-year-old man from the capital being arrested.

Charges are due to be leveled against the other four suspects.

The police force’s cyber crimes unit said Thursday that it had arrested a 31-year-old man alleged to have been trading in child pornography.

The unit was told by Interpol that Internet users were sharing videos featuring children being sexually abused from IP addresses based in Greece.

Police on Thursday released the name and photograph of a 51-year-old man, Isidoros Markos, who faces charges of trading in child pornography.

The suspect was arrested early last month after a raid on his home in Acharnes, northwestern Athens, turned up a wealth of material featuring the sexual exploitation of children.