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Montevideo, May 24th 2025 - 11:20 UTC

Tag: child pornography

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2025 - 12:33 UTC

    CFK's would-be assassin convicted in child pornography case

    Sabag Montiel tried to shoot CFK on Sept. 1, 2022, but his pistol jammed

    Fernando Sabag Montiel, the main suspect in the assassination attempt against then Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) in September 2022, Tuesday clinched a plea deal with the prosecution in an unrelated child pornopraphy case for which he was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in jail.

  • Wednesday, February 8th 2023 - 08:06 UTC

    Online child porn more sophisticated, researchers at Brazilian NGO warn

    The number of cybercrimes against children reported during 2022 grew by over 10,000 from 2021 figures, Safernet said

    A Brazilian non-government organization (NGO) Tuesday said it had documented over 111,000 cybercrimes against children in 2022, Agencia Brasil reported. The announcement was made on the occasion of the Feb. 7 Safe Internet Day, which was celebrated for the 15th time in the South American country and 20th globally.

  • Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 15:25 UTC

    UK and US raid “dark web” of child pornography: 337 arrests in 38 countries

    “Welcome to Video” operated on the so-called “dark web”, which can only be accessed by special software and is widely used to traffic various illegal content

    UK and US authorities investigating a “dark web” child pornography site run from South Korea on Wednesday announced the arrest of 337 suspects in 38 countries. Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said the “Welcome to Video” site contained 250,000 videos that were downloaded a million times by users across the world.