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 connect and entice children. Money to enable them to 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 his own wishes, but Dubai police intervened to prevent him from carrying out his sick plan and revealed his truth to his family, which was shocked by her university son. 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 «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 defendant in record time, and found in his possession More than 200 children belonging to more than 10 children were planning to blackmail and harass them.
Regarding the punishment in such cases, he explained that he shall be punished by imprisonment and a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty thousand dirhams and not exceeding one million dirhams, or by one of those penalties, whoever incites or seduces another person to commit prostitution or debauchery or has helped to do so, using an information network or One of the means of information technology, and the penalty of imprisonment for a minimum of five years and a fine of not more than one million dirhams if the victim was a juvenile under the age of eighteen.
Al-Jallaf said that Dubai Police pays great attention to the issues related to children as 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 Investigation Bureau "FBI" recently to combat crimes against children via the Internet 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' 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 technologies, hunting their victims more quickly and easily than ever through social networking sites and electronic games with open space, and children and adolescents are the weakest category in this episode to count Their awareness, maturity, inexperience, impulsiveness and curiosity to experience, interact and get to know strangers is all the more compelling when the atmosphere is psychologically uncomfortable for the child, or when they are beaten or taunted by their parents. Extortion, harassment, bullying or otherwise for fear of punishment.