Authorities Discover Global Child Porn Network

	<a href='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a9cd87eb&cb=644153000' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=1&cb=644153000&n=a9cd87eb' border='0' alt='' /></a>	May 22, 2013
		Text Size

Trending: chris hedges economy elizabeth warren politics robert scheer

Lock Up Washington

Rise Up or Die

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023

Glaciers Are Melting Slowly but Surely
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023
By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch

Lock Up Washington
By Richard Reeves

Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch

Anthony Weiner Announces NYC Mayoral Bid (Video)

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

A Step Closer to Immigration Reform

GOP Senator’s Hypocrisy on Tornado Aid, Jon Stewart Hates Washington, and More

Our God of Imagination

Economic Murder: How and Why Austerity Kills

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘The Daily Show’: Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America

By Eugene Robinson
$16.47

Authorities Discover Global Child Porn Network

whdh.com

Police departments around the world have launched investigations following Austria’s discovery of an online child pornography network. By observing a targeted website for one day, investigators were able to gather the IP addresses of thousands of illicit downloaders from 77 countries.

BBC:

Twenty-three suspects were being questioned, Austrian officials said, and arrest warrants might soon be issued. Fourteen of them have confessed to downloading the material.

The youngest person implicated was 17 and the oldest was 69. They included students, government employees and retired people, Mr Platter said.

He said the FBI was investigating some 600 suspects in the US. German authorities were following leads on at least 400 people, France was looking into about 100 more and Britain was investigating 72 people.

Denmark’s news agency Ritzau said 19 Danes were involved in the investigation, according to police sources.

Downloads of the illegal videos were recorded in countries ranging from Algeria to Iceland and Venezuela - those under investigation are suspected of distributing the material after watching it.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

TAGS: abuse austria child pornography crime europe investigation police world

Related Entries

Email to a friend

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: North Korea Agrees to Discuss Nukes if U.S. Eases Policy

Next item: Oversight Hearing Reveals Contractor Abuses

New and Improved Comments

If you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy.

By Ipsi Dixit, December 2, 2008 at 10:28 am Link to this comment

Why don’t they just legalise child pornography like they do with adult pornography? It seems utterly pointless to me to criminalise vast numbers of people just because they looked at a picture instead of going after those who actually commit the crime. Not to put too fine apoint on it, it seems, like the war on drugs, merely a way of justifying intrusion into peoples lives and a pretext for repressive social legislation and thought-control through censorship. The excuses for criminalising the mere possession of child pornography (as opposed to its production) rely on nothing but the flimsiest of (unproven and probably unprovable) assertions which appear to lack any scientific basis. In fact, why don’t they reform the age of consent laws to reflect whether or not sexual acts done in private are genuinely consensual or not, instead of always assuming rape?

Report this