Teacher, lab assistant, eight children among 53 arrested in pedophile operation
KUALA LUMPUR — Police arrested 53 people, among them a teacher, a laboratory assistant and eight children, in a three-day nationwide operation targeting online child sexual abuse material, Bukit Aman Criminal…
Source: Kosmo Online · September 22, 2026 at 11:02 AM · AI-assisted report
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KUALA LUMPUR, 22 SEPTEMBER 2026 —
KUALA LUMPUR — Police arrested 53 people, among them a teacher, a laboratory assistant and eight children, in a three-day nationwide operation targeting online child sexual abuse material, Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk M. Kumar said today.
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The joint operation by the Royal Malaysia Police and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, code-named Op Pedo Bersepadu PDRM–SKMM 3.0, ran from Sept 14 and covered 92 targets across the country. Fifty-two raids resulted in arrests; 40 others yielded none. Of those detained, 52 are Malaysian citizens and one is a Bangladeshi national.
The two civil servants arrested are a 24-year-old teacher in Pahang and a 44-year-old laboratory assistant in Terengganu. Kumar said neither has links to the eight children detained, and both work at different schools. Their positions in the education system nonetheless warrant deeper scrutiny over possible access to children, he told the press conference at Bukit Aman.
Ages of those arrested range from 13 to 56. The youngest is a 13-year-old girl. The eight children — seven boys and one girl — are aged between 13 and 18. Kumar said some not only downloaded abusive material but also produced animated content themselves and sold it within their online communities for RM50 to RM60 per file, amounts he described as small but indicative of a worrying trend.
“The amounts are small, but the trend and direction are what concern us. That is what we must take seriously,” Kumar said.
Investigations involving the child suspects are ongoing and will be referred to the Attorney General’s Chambers for further direction. Kumar urged parents to step up monitoring of their children’s social media activity, noting that minors’ high technical literacy makes them especially vulnerable to online exploitation.