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Eight members of single family arrested as alleged child-porn ring smashed
Dec 2, 2010 11:15 PM | By HARRIET MCLEA, CHANDRÉ PRINCEand GABISILE NDEBELE
What is alleged to have been the biggest child pornography manufacturing ring in South African history was cracked yesterday with the arrest of eight members of a single family.
Laid bare during early morning raids on four homes north of Pretoria were allegations of the bizarre and sordid sexual exploitation, by grandparents and parents, of children as young as four.
Police began the raids shortly after 5am, arresting a grandfather, 58, grandmother, 57, their two sons from previous relationships, aged 34 and 36, the grandfather's brother, 61, and his wife, 42, as well as their mentally disabled son, 28. The 26-year-old wife of one of the sons was also arrested.
In what experienced detectives described as what could turn out to be one of the "most heinous sexual crimes committed against innocent children", toddlers are alleged to have been raped by their relatives and groomed to have sex with each other - all of it filmed to feed the demand for child porn.
Some details of the alleged abuse, including sex in a pig sty, are too graphic to publish.