Lack of cooperation by Sargodha child pornography victims lands the case in trouble
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017 12:59:44 by fatimaarshad
An unprecedented child pornography case was uncovered in Sargodha where a 45-year-old man was producing local content using young boys and selling it to international clientele.
Despite such strong evidence gathered against the suspect, Saadat Amin, the case has reached a temporary dead-end as none of the victims or their families are willing to cooperate with the authorities regarding the case.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) took Amin in physical remand and also took possession of his laptop to help find out the extent of his involvement and stop this evil. However, the case suffered a blow when none of the children allegedly exploited, or their parents approached the FIA and neither are they willing to record a statement against the suspect.
“I did work with Manto uncle (suspect Saadat Amin’s nickname) but it is not me in the nude photos and videos you are talking about,” an FIA officer in Lahore quotes a boy as telling the agency.
“Please do not contact me again…Leave me out of this… it is too shameful a thing to talk about and I have nothing to do with it,” the officer cited the boy, aged 14 according to him, as having said.
Another victim’s father completely denied even knowing Amin and asked the FIA to keep the family out of it. When the authorities told the father that his son’s ‘objectionable pictures’ were found from Amin’s laptop, he responded by saying that the pictures were fake. “Those pictures are fake. Why do you want to create problems for us? Do you want us to flee our native town in shame?” said the man.
Similar responses were received from other victims as well.
Amin used around 25 children for his dirty business. He also used a couple who were related to him, in a few of the pornographic videos. Amin would sell the content to his client named James Lindstorm from Norway.
FIA has booked Saadat Amin under sections 20, 21 and 22 of the new cyber crime law (Prevention of Electronic Crime Act). These sections carry an imprisonment of 15 years and Rs7million fine.
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on Apr 18 2017. Filed under Latest News, Pakistan.
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