Police set up cyber taskforce to clamp down on sexual predators


KUALA LUMPUR: Police surveillance of online activities in social media has uncovered a more lurid crime involving Malaysian women and children – cyber sexual grooming.

The special task force, called the Child Cyber Sexual Investigation team, was set up recently to track down cyber sexual grooming crimes targeting youths as young as 13 years old.

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