Friday 29 January 2021

Child Molester Shared Abuse Online

A child molester, who targeted a young boy and girl and shared sick, sexually explicit underage material online, has been jailed for 14 years.

Abraham Berger, 40, of Hackney, east London pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court to two counts in relation to each victim.

He admitted sexual assault by penetration and by touching on a boy and girl, aged under ten years-old.

Berger also pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children and distribution of indecent images of children.

He will spend a further four years on licence, and an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order was imposed.

Berger was part of an instant messaging chat group that discussed the sexual abuse of children and shared indecent images and videos between them.

He was first arrested on August 6, last year by specialist officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Online Child Abuse and Exploitation team.

A mobile phone found on Berger was examined and officers discovered nearly 1,600 unique child abuse images and 127 videos, graded A (depicting the most serious child abuse) to C.

A number of the videos were “first generation” and showed Berger committing the abuse.

Detective Constable Chris Bailey, of the Metropolitan Police's Central Specialist Crime (vulnerability) team, said: “Berger is a dangerous, predatory offender who poses a serious risk to children.

He was living a double life, committing sickening acts of child abuse and talking about his crimes to others online.

The protection of children, and other vulnerable people, from harm is a priority for the Met, and we have a team of officers dedicated to identifying and arresting child abuse offenders who operate online.”

If you have any concerns about Berger’s offending and any past contact he might have had with other children, we would urge you to call police on 101, or 999 in an emergency – we have specially trained officers who will listen and investigate where needed.

Alternatively call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, or report online. 

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