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DARK WEB CHILD ABUSE: HUNDREDS ARRESTED ACROSS 38 COUNTRIES
October 16, 2019
BBC
More than 300 people have been arrested following the take-down of one of the world’s “largest dark web child porn marketplaces”, investigators said.
The site had more than 200,000 videos which had collectively been downloaded more than a million times.
It was shut down last year after a UK investigation into a child sex offender uncovered its existence.
But on Wednesday, officials revealed that 337 suspected users had been arrested across 38 countries.
US officials unsealed nine indictments against the site’s owner Jong Woo Son, 23, from South Korea – where he