LONDON: An Indian NHS psychiatrist has been jailed for six years for helping run a child sexual abuse website and a British teacher for paying teenagers in India to assault children and send them photographs of such encounters. and has been convicted of giving directions. Individual cases last week reached their day of reckoning.
Doctor Kabir Garg, 33, who completed his MBBS from King George’s Medical University in Lucknow and previously worked at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, was sentenced on June 23 at Woolwich Crown Court. he is on gender Criminals register for life.
Garg, who was arrested in November 2022, pleaded guilty this January to eight charges including promoting the sexual exploitation of children and making and distributing pornographic images.
In the same month that Garg was arrested, the National Crime Agency (NCA) picked up Matthew Smith, 34, a former British deputy head teacher from East Dulwich. Smith pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court on 20 June and will be sentenced on 4 August.
The NCA identified Lewisham-based Garg as one of the moderators of the site Annex, which had 90,000 members worldwide and shared hundreds of links to child abuse material daily. Garg was among about 30 administrators of the site.
As a moderator, Garg was responsible for enforcing site rules and providing advice about sharing images of child sexual abuse. When authorities arrested the psychiatrist from his one-bed flat last November, he was reportedly logged into his moderator account.
The NCA revealed over 7,000 pornographic images and videos and several medical journal articles that he had acquired as a psychiatrist. One of them was titled “A Study on Child Abuse in India”.
Specialist Prosecutor Bethany Raine said, “Garg’s crimes are particularly shocking given his understanding of the psychological effects of sexual abuse on children.”
Smith was also online at the time of his arrest, talking to a teenage boy in India and asking him to send sexual images of a child in exchange for money. Child-sexual abuse websites were open on his computer. Officials said their devices yielded more than 1.2 lakh pornographic images.
NCA investigators established that while Smith was in Nepal he paid two teenagers in India £65k (about Rs 68 lakh) to abuse children over a period of five years.
Between 2007 and 2014, Smith worked in orphanages and NGOs across India. Investigators also found evidence that Smith was in possession of potentially objectionable material intended for children during this period.
Specialist prosecutor Claire Brinton said: “Smith offered payment for pornographic images which resulted in the horrific abuse of children in India.”
Doctor Kabir Garg, 33, who completed his MBBS from King George’s Medical University in Lucknow and previously worked at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, was sentenced on June 23 at Woolwich Crown Court. he is on gender Criminals register for life.
Garg, who was arrested in November 2022, pleaded guilty this January to eight charges including promoting the sexual exploitation of children and making and distributing pornographic images.
In the same month that Garg was arrested, the National Crime Agency (NCA) picked up Matthew Smith, 34, a former British deputy head teacher from East Dulwich. Smith pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court on 20 June and will be sentenced on 4 August.
The NCA identified Lewisham-based Garg as one of the moderators of the site Annex, which had 90,000 members worldwide and shared hundreds of links to child abuse material daily. Garg was among about 30 administrators of the site.
As a moderator, Garg was responsible for enforcing site rules and providing advice about sharing images of child sexual abuse. When authorities arrested the psychiatrist from his one-bed flat last November, he was reportedly logged into his moderator account.
The NCA revealed over 7,000 pornographic images and videos and several medical journal articles that he had acquired as a psychiatrist. One of them was titled “A Study on Child Abuse in India”.
Specialist Prosecutor Bethany Raine said, “Garg’s crimes are particularly shocking given his understanding of the psychological effects of sexual abuse on children.”
Smith was also online at the time of his arrest, talking to a teenage boy in India and asking him to send sexual images of a child in exchange for money. Child-sexual abuse websites were open on his computer. Officials said their devices yielded more than 1.2 lakh pornographic images.
NCA investigators established that while Smith was in Nepal he paid two teenagers in India £65k (about Rs 68 lakh) to abuse children over a period of five years.
Between 2007 and 2014, Smith worked in orphanages and NGOs across India. Investigators also found evidence that Smith was in possession of potentially objectionable material intended for children during this period.
Specialist prosecutor Claire Brinton said: “Smith offered payment for pornographic images which resulted in the horrific abuse of children in India.”