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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 20 February 2018

British judge sentences prolific pedophile to 32 years

By DANICA KIRKA least once," he listed "a an offender whose sole
LONDON (AP) — A British young girl being used as a motivation was to inflict
judge sentenced a prolific dartboard," and the pro- such profound anguish
pedophile to 32 years in duction of a video depict- and pain,” Matt Sutton,
prison Monday in what the ing a child's bones being a NCA senior investigat-
U.K.'s national law enforce- "slowly and deliberately ing officer, said. “I’ve also
ment agency described as broken." Judge Philip Park- never known such an ex-
a watershed moment for er branded Falder an "inter- tremely complex investiga-
coming to grips with tech- net highwayman," whose tion with an offender who
nology's ability to support behavior was "cunning, was technologically savvy
and spread depravity. persistent, manipulative and able to stay hidden
Geophysicist Matthew and cruel." "The damage is in the darkest recesses of
Falder admitted to 137 of- ongoing for these individu- the dark web. This investi-
fenses, including blackmail, als," Parker said of Falder's gation represents a water-
voyeurism and encourag- victims. "It will never end, shed moment.” Falder had
ing the rape of a child. knowing the abuse caused been working as a lecturer
Posing as a female artist by you still exists in other at the University of Birming-
looking to do life drawings, unknown persons' comput- ham when arrested by the
Falder, 29, lured victims into ers." Britain's National Crime NCA last year. Adept at
sending him humiliating im- Agency said Falder's crimes covering his tracks, he used
ages, many of which end- required unprecedented 70 online identities — care-
ed up on the dark web. He levels of resources to stop. ful not to leave tracks on
approached 300 people The agency worked with the social media. He had
worldwide, some of them the country's electronic an account on the Hurt 2
teens advertising for baby- intelligence agency, U.S. The Core network, an en-
sitting or dog walking jobs Homeland Security, the crypted site on the dark
online. Falder also hid cam- Australian Federal Police web taken down by the FBI,
eras in bathrooms to record and Europol to crack the This handout photo issued by the National Crime Agency shows which alerted British police.
women and girls naked. He case. At one point, some Dr Matthew Falder. A judge in Britain has on Monday, Feb. 19, The NCA, the British equiva-
even set up a camera in 100 investigators were in- 2018 sentenced a prolific pedophile to 38 years in prison in lent of the U.S. law enforce-
the home of his parents. volved. “In more than 30 what is being described as a watershed moment for authorities ment agency, had little to
coming to grips with technology’s ability to spread depravity.
In an online post titled "100 years of law enforcement, Geophysicist Matthew Falder admitted 137 offenses, including go on save the online alias
things we want to see at I’ve never come across blackmail and encouraging the rape of a child. “inthegarden.”q

Court video shows kidnapped model revisiting scenes of crime

By COLLEEN BARRY She signaled to police a been identified in the case. Inside the building, she to buy food and a pair of
MILAN (AP) — Video of a spot near a doorway where A 30-year-old Pole, Lukasz pointed out a piece of fur- sneakers in a nearby town
British model retracing her she said she was grabbed Herba, who was arrested niture where she said she before her release.
movements from a city stu- from behind. after releasing Ayling at the had been cuffed by her In court testimony, the gro-
dio where she was alleged- Images showed Ayling's British consulate in Milan, is hands and feet overnight cery store owner’s son said
ly grabbed to a farmhouse suitcase, phone and cloth- being tried for the kidnap- the first night. She then that Herba had come to
where she was held for six ing that were found by po- ping. Italian prosecutors showed a bedroom, where the store several times to
days was played Monday lice investigating her disap- are seeking to try Herba's she said later she shared a buy fruit and vegetables,
at the trial in Italy of a Pol- pearance last July. brother, who is in Britain. bed with her kidnapper; a and that Ayling waited out-
ish man charged in her kid- According to prosecutors, Investigator Gianluca Si- photograph entered into side once.
napping for ransom. Ayling was drugged at the montacchi told the court evidence showed a blan- A neighbor of the farm-
In the video, 20-year-old studio, zipped inside a can- that Ayling broke down in ket folded to create a house where she was held
Chloe Ayling walks inves- vas bag and transported tears as they reached the boundary down the middle testified that he had seen
tigators into the supposed to a farmhouse near Turin, farmhouse, and had to of the bed. Ayling with Herba at least
photographer's studio in where she was held cap- be calmed by her lawyer Finally, she showed inves- twice, and from a distance
Milan where her agent had tive. before being able to con- tigators where she ac- that it looked like they were
arranged a modeling job. Only two suspects have tinue. companied her kidnapper a couple.q