News about Helen Schneider

If he did not pay $500, the Aussie teen had been online communicating with an unknown individual who threatened to post personal snapshots of him with his family and friends. He is said to have died as a result of the threats in 2023. The alleged perpetrators were traced to Nigeria, where two men were arrested and charged.

A warning has been sent by the Australian Federal Police ahead of their children's start in school. Mums and dads should be wary of posting snapshots of their children sporting school uniforms on social media. Any identifiable information could be used to track and groom children. While the events were rare, Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation Commander Helen Schneider said that parents should take steps to ensure that their photos aren't used in sinister ways.

A child sexual assault investigators have published a chilling collection of photographs of rooms where they suspect horrors have occurred in the hopes of finding perpetrators. On Monday, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) released four photographs in the hopes that someone would come forward with information to close cold cases being investigated by the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE). The photographs include a fireplace, a bed frame with a built-in radio, and two photographs from the same scene with a blue brick wall pattern and yellow curtains.

The photos, which were obtained by Australian Federal Police as part of a cross-border probe into a global paedophile ring, show what appears to be an unassuming home office and a gaming set-up. A special gaming keyboard can be seen seated in front of a desktop computer with a webcam attached. But to the right of the screen there is a creepy mask-like bust featuring a broken eye and partly hidden behind a pile of what appears to be Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards, a common card-trading game for children. The mask is from the Absolver video game, a martial-arts-themed role-playing game that is also popular with children and teens, according to Daily Mail Australia. It's called a 'Prospect mask,' and it's given to players who haven't earned their own.

19 Australian men were charged after an extraordinary cross-border investigation. Two of them have been convicted, while seventeen others are facing justice. However, further arrests are not allowed by the Australian Federal Police. Although we have arrested 19 people, the AFP and our allies haven't ruled out further arrests in connection with this investigation,' said Commander Helen Schneider.

On the dark web, thirteen Australian children were saved from a paedophile ring broadcasting horrific child pornography around the world. Two FBI agents were shot dead on the front porch of a Florida apartment in February 2021, prompting the extraordinary cross-border probe, which has resulted in 19 people being charged. Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were planning to execute a search warrant for child abuse information at the home of reclusive IT employee David Lee Huber, 55, when he opened fire on three other agents before turning the gun on himself. Huber was discovered to be part of a botched network of child predators with links to Australia, and many members were found to have advanced IT or specialist computing skills to prevent detection.