With the crisis of child exploitation gripping Australia, for the next few weeks, Secrets we Keep feed brings you the LiSTNR award-winning series, Children in the Pictures, an investigative podcast about the global fight against online child exploitation, following Australian investigators as they track offenders hiding in plain sight across the internet.

The series exposes the scale of abuse, the emotional toll on those working to stop it, and the disturbing ways technology is being used to harm children worldwide.

In episode six, a glitch on The Love Zone site puts Argos’ operation in jeopardy.

The Love Zone’s most obsessive moderator is beginning to suspect the site has been infiltrated by law enforcement.

Argos must act quickly to throw off the scent— triggering a global police operation that spans three continents . Then, the team sets its sights on one of the most prolific abusers ever encountered— for legal reasons, we call him K.

Content Warning: This series delves with sexual abuse against children. Listener discretion is advised.

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With the crisis of child exploitation gripping Australia, for the next few weeks, Secrets we Keep feed brings you the LiSTNR award-winning series, Children in the Pictures, an investigative podcast about the global fight against online child exploitation, following Australian investigators as they track offenders hiding in plain sight across the internet.

The series exposes the scale of abuse, the emotional toll on those working to stop it, and the disturbing ways technology is being used to harm children worldwide.

In episode five, the Argos team set out to impersonate the head of an online child abuse board. Although not an easy task, the team see it as the only way they can find and save vulnerable children around the world.

As their hunt leads them to Europe, back in Australia, Shannon McCoole’s home town of Adelaide deals with the shockwaves of discovering the horrifying access this abuser had to kids in the community.

And Akhim Dev learns how children who are victim-survivors come back from their abuse, with strength and storytelling.

Content Warning: This series delves with sexual abuse against children. Listener discretion is advised.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the crisis of child exploitation gripping Australia, for the next few weeks, Secrets we Keep feed brings you the LiSTNR award-winning series, Children in the Pictures, an investigative podcast about the global fight against online child exploitation, following Australian investigators as they track offenders hiding in plain sight across the internet.

The series exposes the scale of abuse, the emotional toll on those working to stop it, and the disturbing ways technology is being used to harm children worldwide.

In episode four, the police move in and confront Skee at his home. His real name is Shannon McCoole.

Hear never-before-shared police footage of McCoole’s dramatic arrest and prison interviews that reveal the full extent of the power he wielded as head of The Love Zone.

McCoole’s arrest presents Argos with a rare opportunity to hunt down TLZ’s most depraved operators, one by one.

Content Warning: This series delves with sexual abuse against children. Listener discretion is advised.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the crisis of child exploitation gripping Australia, for the next few weeks, the Secrets we Keep feed brings you the LiSTNR award-winning series, Children in the Pictures, an investigative podcast about the global fight against online child exploitation, following Australian investigators as they track offenders hiding in plain sight across the internet.

The series exposes the scale of abuse, the emotional toll on those working to stop it, and the disturbing ways technology is being used to harm children worldwide.

In episode three, Argos are closing in on The Love Zone’s head administrator Skee. Documentary maker Akhim Dev travels internationally to speak to experts who work directly with abusers, in order to find out why they’re so hard to stop.

Back in Queensland, Taskforce Argos try a new tactic in their search for Skee, with unexpected results. They’re going in…

Content Warning: This series delves with sexual abuse against children. Listener discretion is advised.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the crisis of child exploitation gripping Australia, for the next few weeks, Secrets we Keep feed brings you the LiSTNR award-winning series, Children in the Pictures, an investigative podcast about the global fight against online child exploitation, following Australian investigators as they track offenders hiding in plain sight across the internet.

The series exposes the scale of abuse, the emotional toll on those working to stop it, and the disturbing ways technology is being used to harm children worldwide.

In episode two, Taskforce Argos has VIP access to one of the most restricted online child abuse boards on the dark net – The Love Zone. Police begin their hunt for the kingpin of the network: head administrator Skee.

Content Warning: This series delves with sexual abuse against children. Listener discretion is advised.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the crisis of child exploitation gripping Australia, for the next few weeks, Secrets we Keep feed brings you the LiSTNR award-winning series, Children in the Pictures, an investigative podcast about the global fight against online child exploitation, following Australian investigators as they track offenders hiding in plain sight across the internet.

The series exposes the scale of abuse, the emotional toll on those working to stop it, and the disturbing ways technology is being used to harm children worldwide.

In Episode One, Australian documentary-maker and father of two Akhim Dev takes an unexpected tour of the dark web and discovers an epidemic hidden in plain sight: online child exploitation material.

Content Warning: This series delves with sexual abuse against children. Listener discretion is advised.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A CIA-backed coup. A hidden Australian connection. And a suburban nanny with a secret past.

In Part Two of Unmasking the Alleged Torturer Turned Bondi Nanny, Uruguayan-Australian journalist Florencia Melgar takes us inside her extraordinary interview with Adriana Rivas — a former member of Augusto Pinochet’s secret police, accused of some of the dictatorship’s most brutal crimes.

While living in Sydney’s Bondi, working as a nanny, Rivas was wanted in Chile for crimes against humanity. In a rare and revealing conversation, she describes how she fled Chile while on bail — paying smugglers to escape through the Andes before returning to Australia, where she had lived since the late 1970s.

In this episode, we hear how Rivas justifies torture, glorifies a brutal regime, and reflects on the power she once held.

More on this story:

• The Other 9/11
• ABC Foreign Correspondent, Facing the Past
• More on Australia’s involvement in Chile: 'Last thing he wanted was to embarrass the CIA': Inside Whitlam's 'agonising' decision to shut Australian spy operation in Chile

Got any tips? Email us at secretswekeep@sca.com.au.

Credits:

• Host: Joey Watson
• Supervising Producer: Claudianna Blanco
• Sound Design: Matt Nikolic
• Head of Factual: Clair Weaver

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A CIA-backed coup. A hidden Australian connection. And a suburban nanny with a secret past.

In Part 1 of Unmasking the alleged torturer turned Bondi nanny, Uruguayan-Australian journalist Florencia Melgar takes us inside her groundbreaking investigation, The Other 9/11, and how she uncovered the secret role Australian spies played in the Pinochet coup in Chile in 1973.

What began as a deep dive into Cold War espionage led somewhere unexpected: to Bondi, and to a woman accused of being part of Chile’s machinery of torture.

More on this story:

• The Other 9/11
• ABC Foreign Correspondent, Facing the Past
• More on Australia’s involvement in Chile: 'Last thing he wanted was to embarrass the CIA': Inside Whitlam's 'agonising' decision to shut Australian spy operation in Chile

Got any tips? Email us at secretswekeep@sca.com.au.

Credits:

• Host: Joey Watson
• Supervising Producer: Claudianna Blanco
• Sound Design: Matt Nikolic
• Head of Factual: Clair Weaver

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.