PETALING JAYA: A university student was recently arrested under the police’s Op Pedo for allegedly possessing 5,000 photos and videos of child and adult pornography.
Siti Kamsiah Hassan, principal assistant director of Bukit Aman’s sexual, women and child investigation division, said some of the material was home-made, involving his two young cousins, aged four and nine.
She said a team arrested the 20-year-old in Pasir Gudang, Johor, on April 29 based on information obtained from Google.
“He was arrested and his phone and laptop seized under Section 10 of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017 (for child pornography) and Section 292 of the Penal Code (for sale of obscene material),” Harian Metro reported her as saying.
Siti said the student sexually exploited and recorded his cousins with his mobile phone several times at three different locations in Selangor, Kelantan and Pahang.
She said three separate investigation papers have been opened in the three states.
“The suspect was charged in Johor on May 22 for possession of child sexual abuse material and obscene material. He pleaded guilty and paid a fine of RM5,000.
“He was charged today in Klang with recording acts committed with the two children at his family home in Sungai Buloh between 2023 and 2025,” she said.
Siti said another case in which the student recorded bathing the two children at a duck farm in Maran, Pahang, is being studied by the deputy public prosecutor.
“The incidents last year and this year in Kelantan were at his grandmother’s home and are being studied by the Attorney-General’s Chambers,” she said.
