{"id":6096,"date":"2025-08-30T11:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ex-french-cop-found-with-thousands-of-child-sex-abuse-pictures-in-marseille-home-to-face-trial-as-filipino-street-kids-step-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:50:31","slug":"ex-french-cop-found-with-thousands-of-child-sex-abuse-pictures-in-marseille-home-to-face-trial-as-filipino-street-kids-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ex-french-cop-found-with-thousands-of-child-sex-abuse-pictures-in-marseille-home-to-face-trial-as-filipino-street-kids-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-French cop, found with thousands of child sex abuse pictures in Marseille home, to face trial as Filipino street kids step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>AIX-EN-PROVENCE, Aug 30 &mdash; A former officer with the police&rsquo;s child protection unit in the southern French city of Marseille will face trial on Monday for allegedly raping and sexually abusing Filipino street children.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old ex-policeman, who has been in custody for four years, was arrested after the head of a youth shelter reported that a 17-year-old resident, a rape victim, had been receiving inappropriate late-night messages from the lead officer on his case.<\/p>\n<p>Marseille prosecutors launched an investigation and raided the policeman&rsquo;s home in June 2021, where they seized thousands of child pornography images.<\/p>\n<p>The probe led them to the Philippines, to where the man travelled each year as head of the French branch of a charity helping street children in the capital, Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Two Filipino orphan boys, aged 12 and 15, told investigators the man had paid the equivalent of a few dozen euros (dollars) in exchange for sex on a piece of wasteland and then at his apartment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This was a Machiavellian scheme &mdash; an unprecedented modus operandi in which someone presents themselves as an ambassador for child protection,&rdquo; said Celine Astolfe, lawyer for France&rsquo;s Foundation for Childhood, a plaintiff at the trial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Four other child protection charities are also plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal trial, held in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence, is due to conclude on Thursday. &mdash; AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Ex-French cop, found with thousands of child sex abuse pictures in Marseille home, to face trial as Filipino street kids step forward<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIX-EN-PROVENCE, Aug 30 &mdash; A former officer with the police&rsquo;s child protection unit in the southern French city of Marseille will face trial on Monday for allegedly raping and sexually abusing Filipino street children. 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