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Oamaru man who ran international child sexual abuse trading group sentenced to jail

Oamaru man who ran international child sexual abuse trading group sentenced to jail Newshub 4/05/2021 © Provided by Newshub A man has been sentenced to four years in jail for exporting, distributing, and possessing child sexual abuse publications and being part of an organised crime group. John Ritchie Hellewell, 49, from Oamaru, was arrested by Customs investigators during a search warrant at his home in November 2020. It followed a referral from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the United States, alleging his involvement in exporting and trading the material using a popular social media platform. Customs says Hellewell was already known to them since they had arrested and charged him for similar offending in 2016. As part of his previous sentence, he was registered as a Child Sex Offender.

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