A 41-year-old man has been arrested after Google tipped off the authorities that he had sent an email with an explicit image of a young girl through his GMail account.
A six month investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and 45 police forces across the UK has snared 660 suspected paedophiles.
Baroness Butler-Sloss has stepped down as head of the recently announced probe into child sex abuse, saying that she was “not the right person to chair the inquiry”.
At least 20 prominent figures, including MPs and government ministers, abused young children for decades, a former child protection officer has claimed.
The Vatican revealed for the first time the extent of the child abuse issues that have plagued the Catholic church over the last decade during an interrogation by the UN Committee against Torture.