Pescara, Oct 23 (IANS/AKI): Police in Italy arrested a woman paedophile and her cousin after seizing photos and videos from the pair that included images of the woman having sex with her five-year-old son.

Both were arrested in the coastal city of Pescara on Thursday and are accused of sex acts with children, morally corrupting children and producing and disseminating child pornography, police said.

The five-year-boy and the woman's other children were taken into care on the orders of local magistrates.

The images were found on several electronic devices at the woman's home, investigators said.

Meanwhile, police in Val Pusteria in the Trento region on Wednesday arrested a 40-year-old man on child pornography charges as part of an international investigation into internet based child pornography rings.

Police traced the man on the internet and seized child pornography from his home, including video clips he had made with his phone.