An American citizen in Hyderabad has been arrested by the Police for downloading and uploading child pornography. 42-year-old James Kirk Jones, who was working with a MNC law firm in Hyderabad, was arrested after the cybercrime wing of Telangana’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) received a tip-off about an IP address from which the child pornography content in the form of videos and images was shared.
The IP address was later traced and the Police reached alleged person’s residence in Madhapur in the Information Technology district Cyberabad. Police recovered a laptop containing 29,288 items of Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM), an iPhone and an external hard drive containing adult pornography, 490 GigaTribe profiles and 24 twitter handles/profiles sharing child pornography.
Jones confessed that downloading and uploading such stuff had become a habit for him. Police registered a case under Information Technology Act. The Twitter handlers and GigaTribe profiles are further being probed to know if any of the profiles belong to India.
