{"id":187395,"date":"2025-12-17T00:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187395\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:55:18","slug":"one-of-largest-child-abuse-image-hauls-at-auckland-airport-leads-to-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/187395\/","title":{"rendered":"One of largest child abuse image hauls at Auckland Airport leads to jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qfHWdOuLro\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe material he carried was deeply disturbing and included some of the most extreme child sexual abuse content known to law enforcement worldwide.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"qfHWdOuLro\" style=\"display:none\">Customs found the objectionable material in a search when the man arrived at the airport after  being overseas for more than a month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"qfHWdOuLro\" style=\"display:none\">He admitted to downloading the material on his phone and was then arrested by customs officers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"qfHWdOuLro\" style=\"display:none\">Peterson said the arrest shows \u201cthe critical role of intelligence-led border security, strong partnerships, and highly skilled officers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qfHWdOuLro\" style=\"display:none\">The person was identified in 2024 through advanced intelligence and close collaboration with customs partners, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"qfHWdOuLro\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe moment he re-entered New Zealand in May, Customs officers interviewed and arrested him on site at the border.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"qfHWdOuLro\" style=\"display:none\">The 35-year-old man was sentenced to three years and nine-and-a-half months\u2019 imprisonment in the Auckland District Court yesterday for importing material relating to child sexual abuse and bestiality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe material he carried was deeply disturbing and included some of the most extreme child sexual abuse content&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1903,9092,2681,50,1975,51,2511,1061,8912,545,117857,42,17518,1334,19136,22055,117858,43,1118,28703,5270,6289,427,1335,1961,61,40,38,41,39,1455],"class_list":["post-187395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abuse","tag-against","tag-airport","tag-animals","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-child","tag-children","tag-distressing","tag-extreme","tag-hauls","tag-headlines","tag-image","tag-jail","tag-largest","tag-leads","tag-mentions","tag-news","tag-of","tag-offending","tag-one","tag-readers","tag-story","tag-term","tag-this","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}