{"id":23510,"date":"2025-12-12T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/?p=23510"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:51:11","slug":"high-court-referral-and-charges-against-gauteng-couple-for-the-possession-and-sale-of-child-pornography-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/2025\/12\/12\/high-court-referral-and-charges-against-gauteng-couple-for-the-possession-and-sale-of-child-pornography-material\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court Referral and Charges Against Gauteng Couple for the Possession and Sale of Child Pornography Material"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDarren Wilken and Girlfriend Tionna Moodley\n\n\n\n

Darren Wilken and his girlfriend, Tionna Moodley, who was arrested in early 2025, for the possession and sale of Child Pornography material, and money laundering, appeared briefly in Randburg Magistrates\u2019 Court on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phindi Mjonondwane, spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in Johannesburg, said during their appearance, State Advocate Colleen Ryan formally read the charges into the record and served the indictment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said their arrests followed the receipt of intelligence from international law enforcement partners, which enabled the South African Police Service to identify a target within the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring the operation, authorities seized electronic devices allegedly containing millions of images and videos of child pornography, as well as hundreds of thousands of rand in cash, believed to be the proceeds of the alleged criminal activities. The State alleges that the accused hosted and distributed child-abuse material globally for financial gain,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mjonondwane added that the NPA remained steadfast in prioritising the protection of children.\u00a0\u201cIt will continue to pursue the prosecution of all individuals involved in crimes that endanger their safety and well-being.”\u00a0The matter has been enrolled for pre-trial proceedings in the High Court on February 19.\u00a0Moodley is currently out on bail, while Wilken is in prison custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darren Wilken and Girlfriend Tionna Moodley Darren Wilken and his girlfriend, Tionna Moodley, who was arrested in early 2025, for the possession and sale of Child Pornography material, and money laundering, appeared briefly in Randburg Magistrates\u2019 Court on Tuesday.\u00a0 Phindi Mjonondwane, spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in Johannesburg, said during their appearance, State […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"tpgb_global_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Darren-Wilken-and-Tiona-Moodley.jpeg",1080,644,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Darren-Wilken-and-Tiona-Moodley.jpeg",700,417,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Darren-Wilken-and-Tiona-Moodley-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Darren-Wilken-and-Tiona-Moodley-300x179.jpeg",300,179,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Darren-Wilken-and-Tiona-Moodley-768x458.jpeg",768,458,true],"large":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Darren-Wilken-and-Tiona-Moodley.jpeg",1020,608,false],"default":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"December 12, 2025","get_modified_date":"December 12, 2025","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":19,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":238,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":false,"post_format":false},"author_name":"Hope To Heal","author_url":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/author\/hope2233\/","author_email":"webmaster@hopetoheal.org.za","author_website":"","author_description":"Our mission is for women and children to live free from violence and abuse and to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing domestic violence and child abuse and to lead the struggle to end domestic violence through advocacy and community education.","author_facebook":"","author_twitter":"","author_instagram":"","author_role":["administrator"],"author_firstname":"Hope To","author_lastname":"Heal Foundation","user_login":"Hope2233","author_avatar":"","author_avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/00ba9733f71edb9653d7f34fee6719bfc21db4d30ee7e9a8d61ac758d1032f46?s=96&d=mm&r=g","comment_count":0,"post_likes":0,"post_views":0},"tpgb_post_category":{"category":"News<\/a> "},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23512,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23510\/revisions\/23512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}