This is not an easy read.

Parents entrust their children to a variety of people such as teachers, sports coaches, and caregivers. This is one of those cases where a deplorable person used their position to exploit the children in their care.

A karate and wrestling coach from Bronkhorstspruit, Neville Randall, has allegedly been selling pictures of young children in ‘wrestling poses’ online.

The pictures were sold on the internet for as much as R1 500, according to a report by News24.

In the pictures, boys and girls in their preteens and teens can be seen in a number of suggestive poses, with tags such as “schoolboy”, “body scissors”, “crucifix pins”, “schoolgirl pins”, “strangling” and “boy dominating girl”.

Randall has been coaching children at his club in the rural town since 2000. The website where he sells his photos reportedly hosts thousands of picture sets, and invites ‘clients’ to order bespoke pictures with the children of their choice.

Here’s where it gets really dark.

According to Rapport, child services authorities cannot intervene as no crime has been committed and the children’s parents consented to the pictures. The paper also reported that the children got paid for their efforts.

Theuns Vorster, a local attorney, submitted a draft statement about the activities at the club to the police in 2016, but the investigation led to nothing.

Meanwhile, Rapport, who initially broke the story, traced a number of the pictures to a Facebook page belonging to an Aaron Lautner.

His page contains pictures of wrestling children, with some pictures bearing the “Fighting Kids” watermark and website address.

Some of the comments are sexually suggestive.

Michael Tovar commented: “2 on 1 that is what i want. Soooo hot (sic).”

Someone called Still Mike wrote: “want some one to hold me and take fully advantage of me (sic).”

Randall claims the sessions were innocent classes in self-defence techniques. The children were paid for their participation in the photo or recording sessions so that they could buy clothes, computers or bicycles.

Predators have been known to offer children money or other rewards for tolerating or participating in illicit activities.

Rapport spoke to parents who reacted with shock to the sexual undertones of the comments.

Let’s hope investigations are reopened.

[source:news24]