Authorities Discover Global Child Porn Network
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.
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.
Wait, before you go…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.
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