Police techies have reverse-engineered disguised photographs of man sexually abusing children to obtain a series of useable pictures (of the offender only)
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Story was on the news at 1330. The point was made that if anyone thinks they know who he is, tell the police because if an innocent gets a kicking or worse, that'll undermine the initiative of posting his mugshot in the public domain. Until today, plod only circulated the photos in the law enforcement community. No joy.
Please, no rants or cruel and unusual punishments for abusers.
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The pictures had been manipulated to disguise the man's face with a swirl pattern, but computer specialists at Germany's federal police agency, the BKA, worked with Interpol's human trafficking team to produce identifiable images.
They show a man with slightly receding dark hair, aged 35 to 40 years old.
They show a man with slightly receding dark hair, aged 35 to 40 years old.
Please, no rants or cruel and unusual punishments for abusers.