German police have broken up one of the world's biggest child porn networks which linked around 26,500 suspected users of child abuse material in 166 countries across the world.
Investigators said members of the ring were traced from email distribution lists seized last year from a man in the German city of Magdeburg. "One of the biggest internationally active networks has been smashed," said Curt Becker, justice minister for the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, Reuters reports.
Suspected members of the ring include individuals in the US, Australia, Switzerland and Germany. The 530 Germans - all men - suspected of possession or trafficking in child porn include police officials, a border guard and "many teachers and educators," according to Juergen Konrad, attorney-general for Saxony-Anhalt. In German police raids this week more than 500 addresses were raided and hundreds of PCs, 35,500 CDs, 8,300 diskettes and 5,800 videos seized in operations involving 1,500 police officers.
One photograph seized showed a baby of four months being abused, Reuters reports. According to The Times “at least 200 British suspects” were under investigation by UK police, after their details were sent by the German authorities.
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Investigators said members of the ring were traced from email distribution lists seized last year from a man in the German city of Magdeburg. "One of the biggest internationally active networks has been smashed," said Curt Becker, justice minister for the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, Reuters reports.
Suspected members of the ring include individuals in the US, Australia, Switzerland and Germany. The 530 Germans - all men - suspected of possession or trafficking in child porn include police officials, a border guard and "many teachers and educators," according to Juergen Konrad, attorney-general for Saxony-Anhalt. In German police raids this week more than 500 addresses were raided and hundreds of PCs, 35,500 CDs, 8,300 diskettes and 5,800 videos seized in operations involving 1,500 police officers.
One photograph seized showed a baby of four months being abused, Reuters reports. According to The Times “at least 200 British suspects” were under investigation by UK police, after their details were sent by the German authorities.
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Simply sickening :(
pretty sick answer either way.
ARRRRRGH!!!! SO ANGRY NOW!!!!
if you really think that, you have serious problems. _every_ human being on earth should "deserve" human rights, even if the commit crimes as bad as those mentioned above.
who are you to decide which person deserves rights?
as for the electric chair, i personally think spending my entire live in a prison is far worse than death.
Unlikely to happen. Prisons usually keep them away from the "general" population. Inmates are fast to find out if they're child molesters, etc. and they're likely to be killed. But, hey, I don't have a problem with it.
Well sadly the goverment wont put them in prison for life, its too "expensive" etc etc, although i like the idea of them being punished and have to spend their life in prison, i doubt it will happen...
Funny thing is, yes they are. They're just as human as you and me. I realize calling them inhuman might help you feel better about your own nature, but you'd just be lying to yourself in the end.
Also they should have their genitals cut off with a rusty knife. F*cking sick b*stards. After they've bleed a bit they should be revived and have the process repeated with the feet up.
Also dont call me sick. They are the ones with the problem. The solution is death to them.
I am so disgusted that they have 25000 plus people who are into this sh*t.
Pedophiles may truly deserve the strongest punishments out there but unless you root out the reason there are so many and how to prevent their disease in the first place, there will only be more.
i'm in NO WAY condoning what these people did.. they're sick and deserve to be put away & have their nobs chopped off, but porn with consenting adults is fine. whats wrong with watching hot as hell ppl (ADULTS) have sex?? sounds healthy to me! bring it on! even better if they're lesbians..
btw, it's medical fact.. if u masturbate often you'll be healthier & reduce risk of some form of cancer. (prostate i think) so go on.. load up that website you have bookmarked..
The first person to prove me wrong gets a cookie. er, bible.
the 'evil one' (IF it existed), could also be the way people devote their complete lifestyle to some stinky old book & try to force this way upon others.
looking at tits is human man.. hate to break it to you.
when the bible was the law, gays, lesbians, pedophiles, incists were all regarded scum and were killed...
now the west has evolved and laid off the techings of the "stinky old book", so now being gay or lesbian is not that bad, "hey", most people will argue "they are not hurting anyone, are they?"...
maybe the next "improvement" in the western society would be that if a brother and sister want to go to bed together, let it be. they won't be hurting anyone would they now? only the stinking old book says its wrong, but what does the guy who wrote it know about humans, he's only a god...
a society that has no religion and is not governed by that religion will keep on going lower and lower morally since its basis for right and wrong would be what is in their best intrest. take sodom and amorah for example, where the whole society came to the conclusion that being gay is the norm...
if the west continues like this, then don't be surprised if one day the trash you are describing here become a normal thing in one of the western countries...
No thanks. i don't need to be brainwashed to lead a good life. i do it on my own beliefs & experience, not what someone else has written for me...
..and if we want to talk about evolution: lets mention the idiots that hang onto religion & outdated traditional values like a life-support & are too afraid to live outside the boundaries of a ****ing book. long live the people that have the guts to keep open minds and aren't afraid to push things forward.
whoever mentioned the brother/sister thing - thats just stupid. it doesn't take a book to tell you that's ****ed up... but if 2 girls want to get crazy with each other, why the hell not! are they hurting anyone? no, they're having fun. someone wants to watch? cool.. again not hurting anyone.
i'm sorry if your ideal's are defined by a book.
Its not up for debate, ever.....
However: kyak00 or whatever your L33T spelled name is, you need a true grip. No, gays and lesbians were never hunted out and killed in christian societies. And no, there is no phucking link between homosexuality and pedophilia. Provide one clinical research study to back your lurid claims.
There also is zero evidence to support your claim that pedophiles are more prevalent in western societies. If you think a laxing morality in western countries makes pedophilia more acceptable, I can only laugh. I have been in Iran and consider it one of the most religious societies in the world. However, on the street I could buy plenty of Iranian porn magazines that featured people in saran wrap covered in feces. We are all messed up and strong lines need to be drawn at the expoitation of children.
And the bible was written by man, not god.
Ishmael, please read what I wrote once more and try and understand it.
insaneshaft, people along time ago would all agree that it wouldn't take a book to tell you that two men having sex was wrong. but now alot of people are saying that its ok. seems that people need a book to keep telling them what is right and what is wrong, or the right and wrong will change with time.
and you too need to read my post once more and understand it better.
And morals vary person to person.
lets have a peado holocaust..!
They should chop their nuts off!!
And just because some spammer has them on their email list doesn't make them guilty. My bet is that this was some Yahoo groups (not an ISP like they called it). The last Yahoo bust was a group called Candyman, which later was found out that the FBI outright lied to judges about it and how it worked.
I also find it very annoying that most people who host this stuff never get into trouble, just the end user. The FBI does that because its their source for entrapment.
A huge majority of pedophiles 'rehabbed' Just go out and become repeat offenders. Hang em by their balls.
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