A tip-off from Australian police led to the arrest of a couple in the Ukraine who allegedly sold videos of themselves having sex with their four-year-old daughter.
The man, 29, and woman, 30, believed to be cousins, filmed themselves having sex with their child, say law enforcement in Ukraine.
The child had been repeatedly abused in this way from the age of two, it is claimed.
Police in Australia were crucial to the detention of an ‘evil’ couple in Ukraine accused of abusing their four-year-old daughter to make sickening child pornography videos
The man, 29, and woman, 30, filmed themselves having sex with their child, say law enforcement in Ukraine
Police footage showed the couple being detained, as well as the seizure of videos, pictures and sex toys.
A tip from Australian police led to a major police operation in Ukraine and the arrest of the unnamed couple, it was revealed in Kiev.
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 – because new videos with some unknown little child were repeatedly being uploaded from the same source,’ reported Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
The Ukrainians initially problems in locating the couple.
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 $50 and $100 USD, 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.
In police footage, the man was quizzed by police moments after they were raided last week.
The woman hugged her daughter on the bed in their flat in Kryvyi Rih.
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.
It was a tip from Australia that led to a major police operation in Ukraine
The couple were selling the videos ‘to Australia and Asia for cryptocurrency,’ said one report
Lawyer Ekaterina Malykhina said the girl initially was ‘in a hard condition’.
‘She was in hard condition, she was lost, she did not talk to anybody,’ she said.
‘Now she is talking to children, she made some friends and trusts them.’
Reports say the girl will never be returned to her parents. She may be placed into a foster family.
Authorities are seeking to locate the girl’s relatives in Azerbaijan to see if they are able to care for the child.
The father and mother are believed to be cousins. He is a Ukrainian citizen. She has a passport from Azerbaijan.
The couple face up to 12 years in jail if convicted. The father is described as ‘a successful IT man’.
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.’
Abroskin said: ‘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…
In police footage, the man was quizzed by police moments after they were raided last week
‘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.
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