Global Pedophile Ring Smashed
Police agencies from a number of countries have cooperated in smashing a world-wide pedophile ring. 31 children have been rescued as a result and some 700 suspects arrested. Details are still a little sketchy but the investigation has been in progress for most of a year now.
LONDON - British police, with aid from U.S. investigators, have shattered a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, authorities said Monday.
Some 200 suspects are based in Britain, said the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center. Authorities would not break down where other suspects came from.
The ring was traced to an Internet chat room called "Kids the Light of Our Lives" that featured images of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse — including streaming live videos.
Police rescued 31 children, some of them only a few months old. More than 15 of the children were in the United Kingdom, the child protection center said, refusing to elaborate. Authorities would not say where the other children were from.
Officials did say the United States, Canada and Australia were Britain's main partners in the investigation, which involved agencies from 35 countries and lasted more than 10 months.
Coverage from the Daily Mail here.
15 British children have been rescued after police smashed a huge global internet paedophile ring.
In the UK 100 paedophiles have been arrested and a further 100 are being investigated as part of the investigation into an online trading ground for indecent images of children and live exchanges of abuse.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre said altogether 31 children have been rescued from abuse.
The paedophiles used an internet chatroom called "Kids the Light of Our Lives" to swap photos and videos of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse.
The last 10 months of the massive police investigation has involved agencies from 35 countries around the world.
Much of this is going to be redundant right now since so little detail has been released so far. I have some rather strong personal beliefs about pedophiles and am glad this bunch has been rounded up. If I had my way, all people convicted of this crime would spend the rest of their lives in prison. Period. What they have done is nothing short of murdering the childhood of their victims. Those victims will spend the rest of their lives in the hell that the pedophiles have inflicted on them. It seems fair to me that the victimizers never walk free again, either.
Crime, World news | Gaius Monday, 18 June , 2007
By Chris, Monday, 18 June , 2007 @ 11:23 am
Throw in mandatory castration, and I’m with you.
By BubbaB, Monday, 18 June , 2007 @ 1:42 pm
I agree, Gaius. The recidivism rate for pedophilia is astronomically high. And a lot of research shows that the distinction between those who look at child porn and those who practice pedophilia is almost always temporal in nature - it is not a matter of if a consumer of child pornography is going to act out on those desires, but when.