Hidu, the electronic-sniffing dog, helps fight kiddie porn in pedophilia case in Mexico City
Soon after graduating from training in Indianapolis, the black Lab was lent by a U.S. anti-sex-trafficking group to help Mexican prosecutors. It paid off.
By Mark Stevenson | AP Jun 15, 2022, 2:17pm CDT
Hidu, an electronics detection dog, was lent by the U.-S.-based anti-sex-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad to help Mexico City prosecutors in an investigation of a suspected Dutch child pornography promoter.Operation Underground Railroad via AP
MEXICO CITY — An unusual alliance of international activist groups, Mexican prosecutors and a dog that was trained in Indiana to sniff out memory devices joined forces to catch a high-profile suspected pedophile in Mexico City.
It started when Free a Girl — a Netherlands group that fights human trafficking — tipped off activists with the U.S.-based Operation Underground Railroad that Jason Maatman, a Dutch man who openly advocated sex with children, had gone to Mexico after fleeing authorities in the Netherlands.
Maatman apparently thought lax Mexican law enforcement would allow him to operate freely in Mexico City.
But he didn’t count on Hidu, a recent graduate of a dog academy in Indianapolis that teaches canines to sniff out triphenylphosphine oxide, or TPPO, a chemical coating used in electronic devices like flash drives and memory cards.
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“My understanding is there was a cellphone hidden in a laundry basket with just rancid total terrible laundry, you know, dirty clothes in one corner that no one would go into,” Osborne said. “The dog found that phone.”
More:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/6/15/23169907/hidu-operation-underground-railroad-mexico-pedophile-dog-jason-maatman-child-pornography-arrest
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Pedophilia 'Activist' Arrested in Mexico City After Months On Run
BY LEE BULLEN, ZENGER NEWS ON 6/8/22 AT 11:26 AM EDT
The suspected boss of an international pedophile crime gang was arrested after he was found hiding out in Mexico City.
Nelson Maatman, 27, was caught near a train station in the Mexican capital on Sunday.
According to local authorities, Maatman was caught in possession of a gun, cocaine, and electronic devices with child porn stored on them.
Mexico City Attorney General Ernestina Godoy said Maatman was identified as the suspected leader of an international pedophile and child porn network.
Maatman founded the Party for Neighborly Love, Freedom and Diversity (PNVD), a political party in the Netherlands that is not represented in the Dutch Parliament, which supports the idea that laws should be introduced to allow sex with minors from the age of 12.
More:
https://www.newsweek.com/pedophilia-activist-arrested-mexico-city-after-months-run-1713922
Hidu, the very good girl.
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