215 caught by child sex abuse sting

Nov 18 2009

Central Scotland Police have snared more than 200 online sexual predators in a major operation targeting social networking sites.

Detectives uncovered thousands of explicit exchanges between the men and their young victims on the internet.

Operation Defender identified 150 children and teenagers who had been preyed on using social networking sites. In some cases they had met up and had sexual relations with their online groomer.