JHB student nabbed for child porn
Gauteng police say a 20-year-old university student has been arrested for being in possession of child pornography.
The Computer Sciences student, who attends university in Johannesburg, was arrested in Melville yesterday.
Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo says he later appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court.
He was granted bail of R5 000 and his matter has been postponed to December 4.
Police seized a laptop, a cellphone, seven USBs and one external hard drive during the arrest.
Naidoo says 1 000 child porn images were found on his external hard drive.
This arrest was part of a Cloud 9 operation, which is investigating the South African wing of the global paedophile ring.
This is the seventh Cloud 9 arrests made so far.
Other arrests made earlier this year were in Plettenberg Bay, Port Elizabeth, Midrand, Pennington and Scottburgh, Naidoo said.
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