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21-06-2023, 05:12 PM
Martin Evans
Wed, 21 June 2023 at 4:28 am SGT
A former deputy head at the prep school once attended by Prince George and Princess Charlotte is facing jail after admitting paying £65,000 to view child abuse in India.
Matthew Smith was appointed deputy head of pastoral care at Thomas’s prep school in Battersea last September following five years teaching in Nepal.
But last November, he was arrested by the National Crime Agency after investigators discovered he was sharing abuse material on the dark web.
At the time of his arrest, Smith was online, speaking to a teenager in India and encouraging him to send sexual images of a younger child for money.
Investigators later established that Smith had paid the same teenager and another Indian boy, a total of £65,398 to abuse children over a five-year period.
Chat logs showed how he would instruct the men to perform sex acts on boys and then send videos and images in return for payment.
He also gave one of them advice on how to befriend children and build their trust with a view to abusing them.
Smith, 34, had spent a number of years working in schools, orphanages and NGOs across Nepal and India.
Investigators recovered 120,000 indecent images of children from Smith’s devices, as well as evidence he had abused children himself while working in India.
More at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/teacher-prince...59057.html
Wed, 21 June 2023 at 4:28 am SGT
A former deputy head at the prep school once attended by Prince George and Princess Charlotte is facing jail after admitting paying £65,000 to view child abuse in India.
Matthew Smith was appointed deputy head of pastoral care at Thomas’s prep school in Battersea last September following five years teaching in Nepal.
But last November, he was arrested by the National Crime Agency after investigators discovered he was sharing abuse material on the dark web.
At the time of his arrest, Smith was online, speaking to a teenager in India and encouraging him to send sexual images of a younger child for money.
Investigators later established that Smith had paid the same teenager and another Indian boy, a total of £65,398 to abuse children over a five-year period.
Chat logs showed how he would instruct the men to perform sex acts on boys and then send videos and images in return for payment.
He also gave one of them advice on how to befriend children and build their trust with a view to abusing them.
Smith, 34, had spent a number of years working in schools, orphanages and NGOs across Nepal and India.
Investigators recovered 120,000 indecent images of children from Smith’s devices, as well as evidence he had abused children himself while working in India.
More at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/teacher-prince...59057.html
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