How Australian police busted Ukrainian couple ‘filmed having sex with their four-year-old daughter’

Australian police played a key role in the arrest of a Ukrainian couple who allegedly filmed themselves having sex with their infant daughter and sold the footage.

The couple, believed to be cousins, allegedly videoed the child sexual abuse and sold it to paedophiles in Australia and Asia for cryptocurrency worth as little as $70.

The four-year-old girl had allegedly been abused from the age of two by her father, a 29-year-old with Ukrainian citizenship, and her mother, 30, an Azerbaijani national.

 

The father (left), 29, and mother, 30, filmed themselves having sex with their child, said law enforcement in Ukraine

A couple allegedly filmed themselves having sex with their four-year-old daughter (pictured with the mother) before selling the child porn for $70 in Australia

A couple allegedly filmed themselves having sex with their four-year-old daughter (pictured with the mother) before selling the child porn for $70 in Australia

A tip from Australian police led to a major police operation in Ukraine and the arrest of the unnamed couple. 

According to TSN channel in Ukraine, eagle-eyed Australian investigators spotted a bar code in one of the videos where the four-year-old girl was filmed in explicit sex scenes with her parents.

This bar code related to a chain of shops in the Poltova region of Ukraine.

‘The Australians kept pushing their Ukrainian colleagues – [urging them to] search more,’ the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reported.

‘[This was] because new videos with some unknown little child were repeatedly being uploaded from the same source.’ 

Ukrainian authorities had problems in locating the couple before the assistance from their Australian counterparts. 

This image shows  the alleged victim being taken to the hospital by ambulance, accompanied by an investigator 

This image shows  the alleged victim being taken to the hospital by ambulance, accompanied by an investigator 

Police footage showed the couple being detained, as well as the seizure of videos, pictures and sex toys. 

One police source in Ukraine branded the couple ‘pure evil’, while a senior officer described them as ‘beasts’.

It is not known if any Australian clients were nabbed downloading the footage. 

The couple were selling the videos ‘to Australia and Asia for cryptocurrency,’ said one report.

The cost was the equivalent of between $70 and $140, said Ukrainian police.

The couple were eventually found to have moved from Poltovo to Kryvyi Rih, a city in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, and they routinely moved every three months.

Eagle-eyed Australian investigators spotted a bar code in one of the videos where the four-year-old girl was filmed in explicit sex scenes with her parents

Eagle-eyed Australian investigators spotted a bar code in one of the videos where the four-year-old girl was filmed in explicit sex scenes with her parents

In police footage, the man was quizzed by police moments after they were raided last week.

Footage from the Ukrainian police showed the woman hugging her daughter on the bed in their flat in Kryvyi Rih while the girl’s father was put in handcuffs.

The girl was later shown being led away by a paramedic to an ambulance to undergo hospital checks.

She has been taken into care and has been sent to a rehabilitation centre in Poltova.

The parents are being held in detention for two months pending further investigations. A trial is expected.

Lawyer Ekaterina Malykhina said the girl was distressed.

‘She was in a bad way, she was lost, she did not talk to anybody,’ she said.

‘Now she is talking to children, she made some friends and trusts them.’

Footage from the Ukrainian police showed the woman hugging her daughter on the bed in their flat in Kryvyi Rih while the girl's father was put in handcuffs

Footage from the Ukrainian police showed the woman hugging her daughter on the bed in their flat in Kryvyi Rih while the girl’s father was put in handcuffs

Reports say the girl will never be returned to her parents. She may be placed into a foster family. 

The couple face up to 12 years in jail if convicted.

Vyacheslav Abroskin, deputy head of Ukraine’s national police force, said: ‘Having seen what this woman did to her daughter, it is impossible to call her a mother.

‘I cannot give you all the details of what this creature did to the child.

‘In my opinion, this woman cannot be cured.’

‘When we heard for the first time about the four-year-old girl being exploited by her parents, I ordered the head of the local police department to stop all other work and investigate this as soon as possible,’ Mr Abroskin said.

‘Those beasts have been arrested by police in Kryvyi Rih. There is very little that surprises me, but this is the ugliest possible crime, against a child.

‘How could they do it to a dependent child?’ 

There are suspicions that the couple were not acting alone and a search is on for an accomplice. 

The couple were selling the videos (pictured) 'to Australia and Asia for cryptocurrency,' said one report

The couple were selling the videos (pictured) ‘to Australia and Asia for cryptocurrency,’ said one report



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