A 39-year-old Atlasville resident was arrested on Tuesday for alleged possession of child pornography.
The man, who works as a car salesman at a dealership in Boksburg, was arrested at his workplace after police established he had stored child pornography on his laptop.
National police spokesperson, Brig Vishnu Naidoo, said the man allegedly took and posted photos of his girlfriend’s four-year-old daughter, sharing them with users as far as the United States of America.
The suspect is alleged to have taken as many as 50 pictures of the victim in naked poses and to have advertised them online, while the child’s mother was oblivious of what her daughter was being subjected to by her boyfriend.
“After receiving and following up on information from their US colleagues, the specialised team working for the South African Police Service’s Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit, based in Gauteng, arrested the suspect,” said Naidoo.
The police searched the car dealership in Boksburg. “It was established the suspect had child pornography stored in the hard drive of his laptop,” said Naidoo.
The police then raided his house and seized three laptops, two external hard drives, two cellphones, memory cards, a DVD, one Play Station console and a mini spy-camera, believed to belong to him.
Naidoo said the suspect’s online adventures were first detected by Homeland Security in the US and were eventually traced to South Africa.
He has been charged with the manufacture, possession and distribution of child porn and is due to appear in the Boksburg Magistrate,s Court on Friday.
