Online child abuse

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, for distributing explicit photos and videos of a teenage girl, who attempted suicide upon realizing that the material had been shared online.

The suspect was arrested by officers of the police's cyber crime unit following a complaint by the girl's mother.

A 41-year-old man and two teenage boys aged 17 were arrested in the northern Athens suburb of Agia Paraskevi after getting into an altercation over sexually explicit content shared on a fake social media account purportedly belonging to a 13-year-old girl.

Sean Gravells is charged with sexual interference, sexual exploitation and child pornography-related crimes

Interpol has ended a two-year global operation to catch criminals running networks of websites with child sexual abuse material designed to generate advertising profits.

Brice Patric Ryschon Williams has been charged with 25 counts of felony class 2 child pornography & 18 counts of criminal use of a communications facility

Ljubljana – The Slovenian police have teamed up with Europol and police forces from the Western Balkans for a campaign against online abuse of children and youths in the region, which starts this week.

Wider access to technology among young people is giving way to increasing cybercrime, including online grooming, which specifically targets vulnerable children, according to a social media expert.