Sting nets 10 arrests for child porn pictures
Undercover operation tracks down schoolboys who sold sex to men, and adults who lured youngsters into posing for nude photographs
Police arrested 10 people and seized about 100 pornographic photographs of children in a series of raids in the past two days.
The raids were the culmination of a three-month undercover operation.
The 10 included four schoolboys who were accused of using private photo-taking sessions as a cover for selling sex to men.
The six men were suspected of posing as amateur photographers and advertising through the internet for young models, especially young girls, to participate in photo shoots then forcing them into sex.
Schoolboys offered themselves as young models to solicit clients through online forums that discussed private photo shoots. They charged their customers between HK$500 and HK$1,200 for sex
"An initial investigation showed the schoolboys offered themselves as young models to solicit clients through online forums that discussed private photo shoots," a police investigator said. "They charged their customers between HK$500 and HK$1,200 for sex."