A British YouTuber is facing extradition following allegations he sexually assaulted underage girls in Poland.
Stuart Kluz-Burton, aka Stuu to his 4.2 million followers on the video platform was arrested in the UK last month. Prosecutors in Poland have accused him of “sex attacks” on teenage girls.
The 31-year-old is facing one charge of sexual touching, which allegedly took place in 2015, and three more relating to three years later.
During one attack, Kluz-Burton allegedly supplied alcohol to one of the girls he is accused of assaulting. All of the alleged attacks are believed to have taken place while the London-born content creator was living in Poland.
Kluz-Burton, who has both a British and a Polish passport, now lives in Luton, Bedfordshire.
According to the Mirror, the video creator has been posting to the platform for over a decade and one of his top clips, a glitzy music video called Best Life, sees him perform alongside glamorous female backing dancers.
He has accrued over a billion views, with one video featuring characters from the video game Minecraft totalling more than 17 million views. Experts say a user base the size of his could earn £500,000 a year from advertising, sponsorship and other benefits.
The charges against him came after Polish filmmaker Sylwester Wardega released a video accusing Kluz-Burton and other YouTubers of having sexual relationships with underage girls. It rocked the country’s YouTube community and led to government ministers intervening.
Polish police contacted our National Crime Agency after reported police raids of properties in the Polish capital, Warsaw and the city of Szczecin. It is understood laptops and phones were seized.
Announcing the charges, Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister, Piotr Cieplucha, said witnesses talked of “the huge scale of horrific sexual abuse of minors in the YouTubers community”. He added: “It is only a matter of time before the perpetrators are brought to justice.”
Westminster magistrates remanded Kluz-Burton on conditional bail last month. He is currently on an electronic tag and has to sleep at his home in Luton every night while Bedfordshire Police have also retained his British and Polish passports.
Kluz-Burton is due at a full extradition hearing in February. When contacted about the allegations, he refused to comment.
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