WEB DESK
The leader of an international child rapist gang who live-streamed abuse was arrested Rawalpindi on Tuesday. According to police he has confessed to sexually assaulting 30 children during the questioning. ‘Save The Children’ worker was deported from Britain after pleading guilty to child sex charges 10 years ago.
Rawalpindi police said the suspect, a man named Sohail Ayaz — arrested from the city’s Rawat area — ran a child pornography group and live-streamed videos of the sexual assaults on the ‘dark web’. Ayaz is suspected to have kidnapped and raped multiple children.
Ayaz worked as a consultant for the KP Governance & Policy Project. Ayaz was working with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governance and Policy Project as a consultant. According to Rawalpindi Police, Ayaz was deriving a salary of Rs300,000 and other benefits from the project since the past two years.
“The suspect is 46 years old and is a Chartered Accountant was deported from the UK.” According to police, Ayaz’s marriage ended in a divorce and he has a daughter as well. He used to spend most of his salary on the equipment used to record the live-streaming of rapes.
“We have sent his laptop and equipment to the forensic lab for tests,” said the spokesperson. Police have registered a first information report (FIR) against him.
According to the city police officer (CPO) for Rawalpindi, Captain Faisal Rana, the alleged sexual predator has confessed to raping at least 30 minors and was earlier deported from both Britain and Italy after serving jail sentences for similar crimes.
CPO Rana further noted that the suspect was employed at a child protection institution in Britain and that it was there that he started to sexually abuse children. Pictures and videos were recovered from the arrested suspect.