Cyber Police: Pornographic Content Involving 8 Minors Filmed in Ukraine

Offenders were distributing child pornography online.

Cyber police exposed offenders who sexually exploited children and distributed pornographic content in various regions of the country. Four people involved in this case lured eight minor children. This is reported by the press service of the Cyber Police Department of the National Police.

As part of Operation Web, aimed at countering the online distribution of pornographic products, four people who produced and distributed illegal content were exposed. In total, about 6 TB of such content was seized, including video recordings involving minor children.

Investigators found that in Volyn, a man born in 1992 had been sexually abusing a boy born in 2004 since 2017. He filmed everything on a mobile phone and distributed the content on DarkNet forums.

He has now been served with a notice of suspicion under Article 301 (importing, producing, selling and distributing pornographic items) and Article 153 (sexual violence) of the Criminal Code, and a preventive measure of pre-trial detention — custody has been chosen.

In Vinnytsia region, a man born in 1976 was exposed for sexually abusing his minor child and filming everything on camera. He then distributed the pornographic content online in open access.

A similar operation was carried out in Kherson, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Zakarpattia, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Ternopil, Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv and Rivne regions. As a result, people who distributed child pornography online were exposed.

In addition, an indictment has been sent to court against a 19-year-old Kyiv resident suspected of administering a channel on a messenger. He posted pornographic materials involving children and the rape of a minor girl.