Swedish paedophile mother who fled to Malta with abused children arrested in Spain

● Mother sold films of her children being sexually abused online

A 35-year-old Swedish mother of five has been sentenced in Sweden to six years in prison sentence after being arrested in Spain after she fled there from Malta.

She was convicted on charges of sexually assaulting two of her daughters, aged 14 and eight, as well as producing and distributing child pornography depicting the two children.

Investigations into the heinous crimes began last year when Swedish police discovered several women using underage children from their family environment to produce and distribute child abuse images on the internet.

Two Swedes were arrested at the time but another, the mother of five, who was described as being a pornographic actress herself by the Spanish police yesterday, appeared to have gone on the run.

Swedish investigators, with the help of Europol, determined that the woman had left Sweden with at least four of her five minor children, all of them minors, fleeing to Malta.

It is not known how long she stayed in Malta with her children or if any pornographic material of the children was produced or sold while she was here.

It is known that investigators tracked her down to Malta and then on to Benalmádena, Spain, where she was arrested. The Spanish Civil Guard tracked her and her children down and found in her possession of paedophile material with at least two of her daughters that had been sold by the mother on the internet.

Next to the children’s toys were the sex toys that the mother, identified as Carola Vackeros, also sold online, José Luis Caramé, Lieutenant of the Cybercrime Department in Benalmádena said yesterday.

Spanish authorities said they had also found 20 videos ready to sell, on which her children could be seen being “touched”.

The operation, code-named Kasino, led to the arrest of six

Swedish nationals on charges of producing and distributing sexual abuse material involving minors.

Five of these people were arrested by the Swedish police (three men and two women), and the fifth, who had first fled to Malta, was arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard in Benalmádena, in Málaga.

The children, through the collaboration of the Spanish and Swedish social services, were transferred back to Sweden where they were placed with different host families.