Teen admits having over 1,200 sexually explicit images and videos of children


SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A teenager has admitted in a district court that he once had in his possession a total of 1,282 sexually explicit images and videos of children.

The youth was just 16 years old in April 2020 when he was caught in a raid after international law enforcement agency Interpol Ottawa in Canada alerted Singapore police about a local Internet protocol (IP) address linked to the transmission of child sexual abuse material.

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