Category Archive for : ‘UNITED STATES’

AP/D’Arcy Doran

A team of international investigators infiltrated an Internet chat room used by pedophiles whostreamed live videos of children being raped, rescuing 31 children and identifying more than 700suspects worldwide. Undercover officers in Britain, the US, Canada and Australia busted up thepedophile ring using surveillance techniques more commonly associated with fighting terrorism andorganized crime. More than 15 children were found in Britain. A Canadian official said authoritiesthere arrested 24 Canadians and rescued seven Canadian children as part of the probe. Four peoplehave been arrested in Australia, including one who was

Austria has smashed a child pornography ring involving 2,361 suspects in 77 countries who paid for Internet videos showing children subjected to the worst kind of sexual abuse.  Officials said yesterday 607 of the suspects were in the United States, 466 in Germany, 114 in France and 23 in Austria.  Hits on a Russian web page that offered the videos were also recorded in Algeria, Iceland and Venezuela.  It is believed that the videos were made in Eastern Europe and uploaded to the site from Britain.  

(Vienna)

U.S. and Canadian authorities said on Wednesday they had cracked an international child pornography network that in some cases transmitted molestations live over the Internet.  One case involved the abuse of a toddler less than 18 months old.  Twenty-seven people from the U.S. and Canada, Australia and Britain, are charged with possession, receipt, distribution and manufacture of child pornography in connection with the case.  Twenty-six of the suspects have been arrested and one is still at large.  Making child pornography carries a minimum 15-year prison sentence.  The other charges call