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The Star
5 days ago
- The Star
Jail, caning for Singapore man who had 285 child porn videos showing over 400 children, including infants
SINGAPORE: A police raid on a digital marketer's home in May 2022 uncovered 285 sexually explicit videos showing over 400 children in his possession. The videos include those involving infant boys below a year old. Investigations revealed that Danial Abdul Rahman had shared such content with others via Twitter and Telegram, but did not receive any money for doing so. On July 14, the 31-year-old Singaporean was sentenced to three years and a month in jail, and four strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to being in possession of such pornographic material. Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Benjamin Low told the court that in 2017, Danial went on the Dark Web and downloaded child pornography onto his Google Drive account. He also joined various channels on messaging platform Telegram where such obscene materials were shared and distributed. In 2018, Danial created a Twitter account and posted obscene material showing male adults engaging in sexual activities with one another. He later had up to 500 followers on the platform. The DPP said that some of these followers and other Twitter users then sent him private messages, seeking his help in downloading obscene material, including those involving children. Danial agreed to do so and shared such content with them, before Twitter suspended his account in May 2021. After that, he started receiving requests for child pornography from multiple Telegram users. He then downloaded such content and shared them with the users. Investigations revealed that Danial distributed child pornography to multiple people, including at least five users via Twitter, for at least four years from 2018 to March 2022. Court documents did not disclose how his offence came to light, but police raided his home at around 10am on May 12, 2022 and found 285 sexually explicit videos showing over 400 children, including infant boys below a year old. The videos were between 20 seconds and nearly two hours long. The DPP had urged the court to sentence Danial to up to three years and three months' jail, and six strokes of the cane, adding: 'At least one video showed clear indications that the young male subject depicted in that video was in pain and distress, as evidenced by his crying.' - The Straits Times/ANN
Straits Times
5 days ago
- Straits Times
Jail, caning for man who had 285 child porn videos showing over 400 children, including infants
Find out what's new on ST website and app. The 31-year-old Singaporean was sentenced to three years and a month in jail, and four strokes of the cane . SINGAPORE – A police raid on a digital marketer's home in May 2022 uncovered 285 sexually explicit videos showing over 400 children in his possession. The videos include those involving infant boys below a year old. Investigations revealed that Danial Abdul Rahman had shared such content with others via Twitter and Telegram, but did not receive any money for doing so. On July 14, the 31-year-old Singaporean was sentenced to three years and a month in jail, and four strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to being in possession of such pornographic material. Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Benjamin Low told the court that in 2017, Danial went on the Dark Web and downloaded child pornography onto his Google Drive account. He also joined various channels on messaging platform Telegram where such obscene materials were shared and distributed. In 2018, Danial created a Twitter account and posted obscene material showing male adults engaging in sexual activities with one another. He later had up to 500 followers on the platform. The DPP said that some of these followers and other Twitter users then sent him private messages, seeking his help in downloading obscene material, including those involving children. Danial agreed to do so and shared such content with them, before Twitter suspended his account in May 2021. After that, he started receiving requests for child pornography from multiple Telegram users. He then downloaded such content and shared them with the users. Investigations revealed that Danial distributed child pornography to multiple people, including at least five users via Twitter, for at least four years from 2018 to March 2022. Court documents did not disclose how his offence came to light, but police raided his home at around 10am on May 12, 2022 and found 285 sexually explicit videos showing over 400 children, including infant boys below a year old. The videos were between 20 seconds and nearly two hours long. The DPP had urged the court to sentence Danial to up to three years and three months' jail, and six strokes of the cane, adding: 'At least one video showed clear indications that the young male subject depicted in that video was in pain and distress, as evidenced by his crying.'
CNA
5 days ago
- CNA
Jail, caning for 31-year-old dubbed 'one-man distribution hub' of child sexual abuse content
SINGAPORE: A man labelled by the prosecution as a "one-man distribution hub" for child sexual abuse content was sentenced on Monday (Jul 14) to jail for three years and one month, along with four strokes of the cane. Danial Abdul Rahman, 31, pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing 285 videos depicting child sexual abuse for the purpose of distribution, with a second charge considered in sentencing. Most of the videos showed children engaging in or appearing to engage in sexual activity. Seven of them depicted a victim of torture, cruelty or physical abuse. In the videos, a total of 414 children were featured, of which 383 were identifiable. The longest clip was more than an hour and 50 minutes. The court heard that Danial was training to be a digital marketer at the time of the offence. In 2017, he began browsing blogging website Tumblr in search of obscene materials involving males. He would then download the content and store it in a Google Drive account. He also used a browser to access the dark web for child abuse content, which he downloaded. Danial joined various channels on chat application Telegram where obscene materials, including those of child abuse, was being shared and distributed. He would download the content and store it on his Google Drive account. In 2018, Danial created an account on Twitter, now known as X. He used the account to post obscene content or to retweet materials from other similar accounts. Followers of his account grew to about 200 to 500. Some users sent him messages privately asking for help to download certain obscene materials, including those of child abuse, on their behalf. Danial agreed, using the dark web to look for the child abuse content and sending it to the user via direct message or sharing a link to his Google Drive account. In May 2021, Danial's Twitter account was suspended. He began receiving requests for child abuse material from users via Telegram and he would agree to them. He distributed such materials to multiple users, including at least five users on Twitter, for at least four years from 2018 to March 2022. The police received information on Danial's activities and raided his home on May 12, 2022. He admitted that he had uploaded obscene content onto his Google Drive account and was arrested. The police seized his devices and found the 285 videos containing child abuse content. Court documents recorded disturbing details about the videos, such as infants below a year old included in the videos and having degrading acts performed on them. The prosecution sought 37 to 39 months' jail for Danial, along with six strokes of the cane, calling his conduct "reprehensible in the highest degree". Deputy Public Prosecutor Benjamin Low said: "By acceding to, and wilfully complying with, the depraved requests by other third-party internet users for child sexual abuse material to fuel their own perverted predilections, the accused actively and persistently contributed to the market for child sexual abuse material by acting as a one-man distribution hub in downloading child sexual abuse material."
