Gardaí help Interpol in child porn sting investigation

Three Irish men are being investigated by Interpol after they attempted to pay for child pornography online.
Gardai have confirmed they are assisting the international policing body with their enquiries after a sting operation by a Dutch children’s charity. Two of the suspects are believed to be fathers themselves, but the charity says they have evidence of them attempting to pay a young girl to perform sexual acts in front of a web camera.
Terres Des Hommes created a cyber version of a 10-year-old girl to trick users into thinking they were watching a child in order to highlight the problem of online child sexual exploitation.
Hans Guyt of the charity says the men handed over their information readily in order to gain access.
“They volunteered all sorts of information – in on way did we veer stress them or urge them to handover information, they volunteered the information themselves” he said.
“When we said (that) the communication line is bad, ‘can we switch over to Skype?’ – they would gladly hand over their Skype details etc”.
“So in the end, after a few minutes, we had enough for information – with the help of search engines like Google – to establish the identity of the individual” he added.