Scarcity Studios's video: British deputy headteacher paid 65 000 to abuse Indian children

A former deputy head teacher of a primary school has pleaded guilty to paying and instructing teenagers in India to abuse younger children. Matthew Smith, 34, from East Dulwich, was arrested by the National Crime Agency in November 2022, after investigators identified that he was sharing abuse material on the dark web. Smith was online at the time of his arrest, speaking to a teenage boy living in India and asking him to send sexual images of a younger child, in return for money. He also had dark web sites and forums open on his computer which were dedicated to child sexual abuse. He was charged the following day with five offences, including causing the sexual exploitation of a child under 13, and remanded in custody. NCA investigators interrogated chat logs and financial transactions and were able to establish that Smith had paid that same teenager, and another also based in India, £65,398 to abuse children over a five-year period.