‘52 images, nine videos’Police found Kingsford with two cellphones that had objectionable and child exploitation material. ‘750,000 sexual predators online’Court documents state there are more than 200 new child sexual abuse images circulated daily on the internet. The number of sexual predators online at any one time was estimated at 750,000. Demand for new child sexual abuse images resulted in a cycle of abuse for existing victims and demands for new ones. Since 1997, the number of child pornography images on the internet has increased by 1500%.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 15, 2026 04:31 UTC