So led a girl’s review of that nation’s largest overgrepssak were rolled up – Aftenposten

A naked child with his wrists bound together with gaffateip. A man who with the other men discussing the molestation of their own children, still lying safely unborn in samboerens stomach.

Grotesque examples from an ongoing investigation. And it all started with a tenåringsmor and a detective as the main characters.

last September, the kriminalvakten on politihuset in Bergen: A 22-year-old bergensmann is reported to have had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl. It reported overgrepet should have happened a short time before, writes BT.

the Review comes from the girl’s mother. The be noted down, and the case is sent for investigation by the domestic violence and sedelighetsseksjonen at the Bergen police station.

Network of pedophiles

There begins førstebetjent Hilde Reikrås to look at the issue. The 22-year-old being arrested and put in custody. Police searches and take control of the datautstyret his. Seizures shows according to the police of aggravated child molestation, both in photos and movies. And that the 22-year-old had had extensive contact with others.

Førstebetjenten see soon the contours of a comprehensive proceedings of barneovergrep: Network of male pedophiles, who essentially pursue their perverse interests on the so-called dark web. Where download the download and parts overgrepsbilder and videos, discuss and agreements child abuse.

– There is talk about the abuse against children in all ages, also infants”, says Reikrås.

Before christmas, informing her management about their findings, at the same time she outlines how the police should proceed. Only a few weeks later, is 25 police officers set off to work with the case, which is given the codename Operation “Dark Room”.

A etterforskningsgruppe set down and work from a room in the seventh floor of Handelsbanken-built by the side of the police station in the centre of Bergen. On the door hung a note: “No access without permission” with regards from the “Dark Room”-the gang. A painstaking work starts to track down the men who abuse children.

• the Police has, since september 2015, working with a larger proceedings who have been given the name “Operation Dark Room”. Since January has 25 people working on the case.
• a total of 51 people in the Uk identified as a result of the investigation which deals with sexual assault where the contact happens on the so-called dark web. 20 persons are arrested in the West standings. Of them are the two already sentenced, while a case is waiting for judgment. Two cases are dismissed, while the remaining 15 are still under investigation.
• 31 names are forwarded to other police districts. In at least one of these cases, a perpetrator admitted to having committed sexual ovegrep against its own children.
• Police have identified 20 offended – that victims of sexual abuse – only in the West standings. Only one of the cases is about the abuses committed abroad, the other is from Norway.
• Police did Friday an important arrest in the case, and can therefore go out with more information now.

the 51 individuals identified

At a press conference Sunday set Reikrås and stated as investigation and project manager for “Dark Room”, which started with the review from a 14 year old girl’s mother.

Påtaleleder Gunnar Fløystad call the “Dark Room”, the country’s largest case of sexual assault, and noting that it is far from finished yet. Fløystad also says that it is not a question of an overall strike against an environment in the one case, but about a complex of network and abuse cases.

Here are some of the results that were presented at the police press conference about the “Dark Room”:

• a total of 51 people in the Uk identified as a result of the investigation, which deals with sexual assault where the contact happens on the so-called dark web.
• Databeslaget amounts to 150 Terabytes (TB). 1 TB is the same as a million megabytes (MB).
• 20 people are arrested in the West standings. Of them are the two already sentenced, while a case is waiting for judgment. Two cases are dismissed, while the remaining 15 are still under investigation.
• 31 names are forwarded to other police districts. In at least one of these cases, a perpetrator admitted to having committed sexual abuse against its own children.
• Police have identified 20 offended – that victims of sexual abuse – only in the West standings. Only one of the cases is about the abuses committed abroad, the other is from Norway.
• the Police did on Friday what they refer to as an important arrest in the case, and therefore can not go out with more information now.

5500 username

the Police let the Sunday forward the information about the investigation only in the West police district has led them to 5500 user name on one computer program.

These names ties the police to the conversations and photo sharing related to child abuse and sexual abuse against children.

– This is gjerningspersoner who have extensive contact with each other on the web. We see that there chattes about and described the sexual abuse. The investigation has shown that some of these are fantasies, but some of it is real abuse that actually are committed, ” says politiadvokat Janet R. Heltne, påtaleansvarlig for the great overgrepsetterforskningen.

She says that the police in several cases has stopped the ongoing abuse.

” We have been able to stop the abuse, even before the offended person has been able to tell anyone about what they have been through.

- Very ingenuity

Ellen Eikeseth Mjøs is a lawyer for the 14-year-old girl who reported the abuse in september. She says it was the girl’s mother who went to review.

– A strong-minded and very resourceful mother reported from. The police took the matter seriously and initiated a necessary and comprehensive investigation, ” says Mjøs in a comment.

the Man, now 24 years old, was in the summer trial for the molestation of 14-year-old and several other girls. This week he met in a closed trial in Bergen district court.

A number of the other tiltalepunktene against him is about internettrelaterte abuse, among other things, chatting about the sexual abuse of children and storage of photos and videos documenting the sexual abuse of children.