Lewis Edwards was on duty with South Wales police when he coerced some of the children into sending explicit images
A predatory paedophile who incited more than 200 girls as young as 10 to send him explicit images and videos of themselves while he was a serving police officer has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years.
As well as continuing to search for more victims, police are hunting a distributor of child abuse images on the darknet called “Snap God”, a name Edwards forced some of his victims to write on their bodies. Some victims hid the abuse for months from their families and contemplated suicide. A number stopped going out because they felt they needed to be in the privacy of their own homes so they could meet his next demand.
She said the revelation that the abuser was a police officer sent “shock waves” through the force. “We want a relationship with our communities that’s built on trust and confidence. And this one individual really has blemished that relationship for us.”
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