22-year-old from Varde area is charged with extortion and sexual abuse of over 100 girls, police said.

Over 100 girls can be a part of a large case of blackmail and sexual abuse, as the South - Jutland Police currently investigating.

It informs Helle Lundberg, communications officer at the South Jutland Police.

The final number of cases is not yet known.

- the Case is not finally mapped, as it remains to be investigated. But it may very well be over 100 cases, she says.

the Police still need to speak with a large number of girls.

In the case is a 22-year-old man from the Varde area charged with blufærdighedskrænkelser, rape and other sexual relations than sexual intercourse against a large number of teenage girls.

The aggrieved teenage girls is between 12 and 18 years of age and are from all over the country.

the Man has been in custody since april.

South Jutland Police have since the spring investigated the comprehensive case about the digital sexual violations, rape and other sexual abuse.

The 22-year-old man has, according to a grundlovsforhør in april, contacted the girls through social media Snapchat and Yubo, writes DR.

this, he threatened the girls to perform sexual services on the video or photo to publish sexually explicit pictures of them.

the Police is sparse with information about the content of the case, as the court hearings in the case so far all have been kept behind closed doors.

It means that the public have had the opportunity to hear what evidence the police and the prosecuting authorities based their suspicion on, and what the accused on the other hand, have explained.

In the spring informed the police that the man then partially recognized his guilt.

Incarceration has been maintained by the terms of the investigation. Including with the purpose of avoiding that the young man affects the witnesses in the case.

South Jutland Police can not yet say when the investigation is expected to be finalised. There is still investigative work, sounds it.

In another case from Esbjerg there is reason to fear hundreds of children and young people to have been subjected to sexual abuse and so-called grooming committed by a 33-year-old man from the Esbjerg area.

this was stated by The South Jutland Police.

the Man accused of blufærdighedskrænket and exposed boys under 15 years for other sexual practices than intercourse.

the Concept of "grooming" covers situations in which an adult builds a relationship of trust with a child with the purpose of later committing atrocities.

It is typically done via the internet or over the phone.

/ritzau/