More than 10 children aged nine to 10 years have been rescued from a blackmail attempt by the Dubai Police's General Investigation and Criminal Investigation Department after a 25-year-old university man used the chat rooms to communicate with children. And lure them with money so that they can increase their points and balances and compete with better reviews.
The Director of the Department, Brigadier General Jamal Salem Al-Jallaf, said that the defendant was asking the children to send personal photos to force them to meet their own wishes later, but Dubai police intervened in a timely manner and prevented the continuation of the implementation of his ailing plan, and revealed the fact of the student in front of his family, which was shocked by her university son, Especially since she thought that the study behind his isolation in his room for long hours.
He added that the incident began when a child told his mother that someone in the chat room in the game «Fort Knight» offered him money in exchange for sending private pictures of him, the mother immediately opened a communication through the platform «eCrime» of the electronic detectives that reached the accused in record time, and found in He possessed 200 photographs belonging to more than 10 children, who were planning to blackmail and harass them. The incident shocked the family of the accused, especially his father, who was silent after seeing the hidden side in his son's life.
Regarding the punishment in such cases, Al-Jallaf explained that he shall be punished by imprisonment and a fine of not less than 250 thousand dirhams and not exceeding one million dirhams, or by one of those penalties, who incites or seduces another person to commit prostitution or debauchery or has helped to do so, using an information network. The penalty of imprisonment for a term not less than five years and a fine not exceeding one million dirhams if the victim is a juvenile under 18 years of age.
Al-Jallaf said that Dubai Police pays great attention to the issues related to children, and that they are dealt with in a confidential manner that takes into account the privacy of the child and his family, pointing out that Dubai Police has officially joined an international team established by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently to combat crimes against children online. With the participation of police agencies from 13 countries around the world, we have been provided with the latest monitoring and monitoring programs and applications, and a joint international database and information has been established to maximize cooperation.
He stressed the need for parents to pay attention to their children, because some children are easy prey for the owners of the sick souls whose methods evolve with the development of communication techniques, hunting their victims more quickly and easily than ever through social networking sites and electronic games open space.
He pointed out that children and adolescents are the weakest group in this episode because of their incomplete awareness, maturity and lack of experience, in addition to their impulsiveness and curiosity to experience, interact and identify with strangers, and it gets worse when the atmosphere of the house is psychologically uncomfortable for the child, or when he is beaten or taunted by his parents, where Her nostalgia tends to keep quiet about the extortion, harassment, bullying or otherwise, for fear of punishment.