Project Rescue Children

🚨Breaking:

‘AUSTRALIAN PA******LE NETWORK OF 700 OFFENDERS USING A INTERNATIONAL CLOUD BASED STORAGE PLATFORM TO ACCESS AND SHARE CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL. IT’S THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF CSAM SEIZED IN NSW HISTORY.’

Repost NSW Police Force
S*x Crimes Squad detectives have made their 62nd and final arrest under Strike Force Glandore, an investigation which has seen the largest amount of child abuse material seized in NSW investigative history.

Strike Force Glandore was established in 2023 by State Crime Command’s S*x Crimes Squad Child Exploitation Internet Unit (CEIU) to investigate the online distribution, supply and access of child abuse material.

With the final alleged offender now charged, detectives can reveal that the investigation began after police uncovered an Australian network of more than 700 alleged offenders using an international cloud-based storage platform to access and share child abuse material.

Following assistance from the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), 62 of those offenders were found to reside in NSW.

Since 2023, detectives have arrested all 62 identified, including 61 men and one woman, laid nearly 400 charges, and identified and safeguarded 20 child victims.

The investigation concluded with the arrest of a man in Corrimal yesterday (Thursday 7 May 2026).

About 5am, strike force detectives – with assistance from the Public Order & Riot Squad and South Coast Police District – executed a search warrant in Nowra.

At the warrant, police located and seized a number of electronic devices allegedly containing large amounts of child abuse material.

Detectives then subsequently arrested a man following a vehicle stop in Corrimal.

The 37-year-old was taken to Wollongong Police Station, where he was charged with 21 offences, including five counts of possess etc child abuse data-use carriage service, 13 counts of use carriage service make available child abuse, two counts of use carriage service-solicit child abuse material and one count of possess child abuse material.

He was refused bail to appear in Bail Division Local Court 3 today (Friday 8 May 2026).

Detective Acting Superintendent Adam Powderly, Commander of State Crime Command’s S*x Crimes Squad, said Strike Force Glandore represents one of the largest arrest totals ever achieved under a single CEIU operation.

“Every image shared, every file accessed, represents a real child who has been harmed. Today’s final arrest closes one of the biggest CEIU strike forces to date and has made a significant dent in the number of pa******les operating in NSW, disrupting a key part of Australia’s online child abuse network.

“Offenders often think they can hide behind technology – but they can’t. The ongoing cooperation with NSWPF by this specific cloud-based application greatly contributed to the investigation and prosecution of these offenders,” Det A/Supt Powderly said.

“Strike Force Glandore may be finished, but our work is not. We will continue targeting offenders who hide behind screens and usernames in every corner of this state. The NSW Police Force remains committed to protecting children from online predators.”

Anyone with information that may assist investigations into the distribution of child abuse material is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000

Source and image: NSW POLICE - Australia

“I thought she was my friend. She listened to me when nobody else did. She made me feel safe, important… wanted. Then little by little my life stopped being mine. They controlled where I went, who I spoke to, what I did and who I was forced to be with. I was terrified all the time. I felt trapped, ashamed and completely alone. There were nights I honestly believed nobody would ever find me or care enough to look.”

“People think trafficking only happens through kidnappings by strangers. That’s not true. Sometimes it starts with someone you trust. That’s how they got me. I lost my freedom, my childhood and almost my hope. Then Project Rescue Children and police found me. I still carry what happened to me every day, but at least now I can breathe without fear. At least now I’m free.”

Trafficking survivor - Philippines

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Most people will scroll past this and think it’s some kind of myth or old cultural story.

It’s not.

A young girl in Uganda was murdered in what police suspect is a case of child sacrifice. A suspected witch doctor has been arrested. A child is dead. And outside of local headlines, barely anyone is paying attention.

This is the reality.

Child sacrifice is real. It’s not rare, it’s not exaggerated, and it’s not something from the past. It is still happening — right now.

As our founder has said through direct work on the ground:

“Child sacrifice is real. We’ve seen it firsthand, we’ve investigated cases, and we continue working with law enforcement to try and stop it.”

And in response to this case media reported:

“Such primitive acts undermine the freedom of children, and we call upon police to speed up investigations and apprehend the culprits.” – Mr Adam Whittington

What most people don’t see is how often this actually happens.

Project Rescue Children and our amazing partner Cherished Children’s Foundation Uganda has worked — and continues to work — on numerous cases of suspected child sacrifice alongside law enforcement agencies in Uganda and surrounding countries. These aren’t one-off incidents. There are patterns. There are networks. And there are children being targeted because they are the most vulnerable.

Some cases never get reported.
Some are hidden behind fear and silence.
Some never reach proper investigation due to lack of resources.

Children are targeted because they can be controlled. Because in these belief systems they are seen as “valuable.”

This isn’t culture. It’s not tradition. It’s the abuse and barbaric murder of children.

No child should be born into a world where this is even a possibility.

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I need to post this because pa******les and their supporters drive me nuts.

What young survivors of CSA face in court or investigation proceedings is something most people will never see up close. It takes everything to speak out—fear, shame, pressure, threats—and still they step forward. Then the system they trust to protect them turns into a battlefield. Not forgetting countless police officers handling the situation and victim atrociously. And they (law enforcement) wonder why so many CSA cases are never reported!!

In criminal trials, defence lawyers are legally bound to test the prosecution case. That means pulling apart timelines, challenging memory, highlighting inconsistencies, and pushing the standard of beyond reasonable doubt to its limit. It’s lawful. It’s strategic. And it’s often ruthless.

But here’s the reality for a young survivor of CSA: that process can feel like being put on trial. Credibility gets attacked. Trauma gets reframed as unreliability. Normal reactions—delay in reporting, words, confusion, fear—are twisted into “doubt.” Meanwhile, the defence builds a narrative that paints their pa******le client in the best possible light while making the victim look unreliable. That’s how the system works—but it comes at a cost.

And when a case doesn’t end in a conviction, too often the next phase begins. The offender’s supporters go on the attack—targeting the survivor, their family, and anyone who spoke up. Smear campaigns. Intimidation. Threats. Online abuse. All designed to silence and rewrite the truth.

I’m sick to death of seeing or hearing it. Sick of predators walking out of court on technicalities and then watching their victims get torn apart for having the courage to speak. That’s not justice—that’s a system predators and lawyers learn how to game. A pa******le’s classic and cowardly tactic…. ‘discredit the child they sexually abused or daped’.

And to the pa******les, and their coward supporters who think threats, pressure, smear campaigns, rogue journalists or legal tactics will silence people speaking out—save it. That might work on some. It won’t work on everyone and definitely not me.

So remember, a verdict is a legal outcome, not a measure of what a survivor lived through. Their courage matters. Their voice matters.

Stand with real survivors. Protect them. Don’t let them be silenced by cowardly people.

www.adamwhittington.com