NCA officers said they arrested one, Robert Stanley, from Essex in April 2020 after receiving intelligence he had accessed three Category A (the most serious) child abuse videos.
NCA said, analysis of his phone uncovered screenshots of a video call with his partner, Danielle Schofield of West Yorkshire, where she sexually abused an eight-year-old girl. Messages also showed the pair fantasising about kidnapping, gagging and keeping a child chained up as their sex slave. They were jailed for a total of seven years and nine months in April 2021.
Detectives discovered that many of the UK offenders were also working in positions of trust, including at primary schools and nurseries, within law enforcement, as medical professionals, and some as religious officials.
Much of this activity took place during the Covid-19 lockdowns when the majority of young people were at home and offenders had more time to spend online targeting their victims.
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