For reference, my go to archival sites, archive.is and archive.ph, are now misbehaving with my VPN (Nord), this time on my phone as well. So be advised, you may need to temporarily disable VPN to access these archive links too. The news since my last post on this is limited, so I've thrown in a fair bit on the UK grooming gang scandal and some older links from 2024 again that I think I missed last time.

Onto the new year's first news round up on the arrests concerning the real problem in the world we are fighting (abuse and trafficking of the kiddies).

1. UK - first, a lotus eaters video. 3 days into 2025, and Elon has decided to go on the attack against the British government's handling of the grooming gang scandals. Glad to see him on the warpath over this - https://youtu.be/AcioBWMmQxU?si=fN0rHDUxD-0hy1PE
2. UK - Let's continue the theme of number 1 with the tories berating Labour over the Oldham scandal, while Farage berates the tories for doing equally little for years when they had power - https://archive.ph/WNyub
3. UK - apparently there's a pass the buck game between the local and national government in the UK over this scandal now. Jess Philips refused to start a gov inquiry after the council requested it, saying it was the council's job: https://archive.is/KdfCQ
4. UK - finally, let's dig up a little history too on this, as guess who was in charge of the Prosecution services in the UK during the scandals? If you said Kier Starmer, you're right! - https://archive.is/MwcTN & https://archive.is/asKks
5. North Carolina, USA - Trump assassin Ryan Routh's son arrested for child porn possession. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree: https://archive.is/eFpKW
6. New Mexico, USA - an inquiry into Meta's child porn rings (operation Metaphile) leads to the arrest of 3 men: https://archive.is/hJZdT
7. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA - Grandson of teniss legend Bobby Riggs, Daniel Riggs, arrested for child porn. He was a tennis coach : https://archive.is/nZXh3
8. Buffalo, New York, USA - an ontario man (dual Canadian and Iranian citizenship) crossing into the US on the peace Bridge was arrested while in possession of child porn: https://archive.is/saBkP
9. Florida Keys, Florida, USA - Eric Cadogan and his wife Kia abused and distributed their footage of child abuse from their houseboat. Eric has been sentenced to 20 years of prison: https://archive.is/Mx97U
10. Wisconsin, USA - woman held captive by her boyfriend as she was exploited via Only Fans. Investigations have show many "content creators" are actually being abused through the platform by their partners: https://archive.is/GjdVB
11. Cambodia - an odd case of trafficking as 13 pregnant women were convicted of trafficking via surrogacy: https://archive.is/w38Gn
12. USA - federal government finally recognises child soldier training and recruitment as a form of human trafficking: https://archive.is/Zp0IV
13. Quebec, Canada - 17 arrested in raids across the province over child porn charges: https://archive.is/37TFa
14. UK / Belgium - a people smuggling ring was raided in a joint task force sting operation. 3 afgani nationals were arrested in the UK on behalf of the Belgian government: https://archive.is/9M5TF

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US contact details

NCMEC Urgent victim help 24-Hour Hotline: 1-800-843-5678 NCMEC Cybertiplines: https://report.cybertip.org/ or https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/cybertipline or call 1-800-THE-LOST National Human Trafficking Hotline: 888-373-7888 or humantraffickinghotline.org HSI/ICE toll-free hotline: 1-866-DHS-2ICE | Anonymous toll-free ICE Tip Line: (866) 347-2423 Tip Form: https://www.ice.gov/webform/ice-tip-form#wcm-survey-target-id

United Kingdom contact details

Urgent: 101 or Contact the Modern Slavery Helpline confidentially: 08000 121700 (24/7) https://www.modernslaveryhelpline.org/helplines Children support: 0800 1111 | Adults concerned about a child: 0808 800 5000 | https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ Report CSAM: https://report.iwf.org.uk/en/ | https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/ Scotland Police: https://www.scotland.police.uk/contact-us/

Interpol, Europol, & EU contact details

Contact Interpol: https://www.interpol.int/Contacts/Contact-INTERPOL https://www.interpol.int/What-you-can-do/If-you-need-help Europol tipline Tel.: +31 70 302 5000 | https://www.europol.europa.eu/report-a-crime EU Hotlines: https://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/citizens-corner-national-hotlines/national-hotlines_en

South Africa contact details

South African National Human Trafficking Hotline: 0800222777 | https://0800222777.org.za/

Global contact details

Global: Human Trafficking Hotline Numbers: https://www.abolishion.org/human_trafficking_hotline_numbers Global: List of Emergency Telephone numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers

And as always, Remember - NCSWIC. NOTHING.