Dark web: Largest ever online child porn bust leads to 337 arrests

[rpannier]

Three-hundred and thirty-seven suspects were arrested after a massive, international multi-agency operation knocked out a horrific child abuse site.

Welcome to Video, a dark web site hosting over 250,000 videos featuring brutal child abuse, was being run from South Korea by 23-year-old Jong Woo Son, the British National Crime Agency uncovered in a press release announcing hundreds of arrests. The website's content amounted to almost eight terabytes of data containing sexual abuse images, that were sold on a bitcoin-centred marketplace worth over 730,000 dollars.

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The individuals were identified by following a trace of presumably untrackable digital currencies that had been used to buy illegal child pornography videos. "The website monetized the sexual abuse of children and was one of the first to offer sickening videos for sale using the cryptocurrency bitcoin," the NCA explained.

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The global operation was conducted by a task force set up by the NCA in collaboration with the United State's Homeland Security Investigations and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, South Korea's National Police and Germany's Federal Criminal Police. The arrests were made in 38 countries, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, Canada and the United States

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https://www.euronews.com/2019/10/17/dark-web-largest-ever-online-child-porn-bust-leads-to-337-arrests

[TheFarseer]

1. Good work

To everyone who helped track these sick bastards down.

[nycbos]

3. +1

[Demovictory9]

7. +2

[nycbos]

2. 38 countries?

Sends a chill up the spine

[Skittles]

5. WHY do so many men want to fuck children

it's so VILE

[Hekate]

6. Down to toddlers and infants. I can't even bear to think of it.

I'm glad they got these monsters -- hope the law can catch many more.

[smirkymonkey]

10. It is inconceivable to me. It's so sick.

I hope these bastards never see the light of day again. WTF is wrong with these men? They are children ffs!

[nycbos]

11. Horrific

[nycbos]

13. There are no words how horrific it is.

[hurple]

4. Yes!

337 less votes for Trump!

[BigmanPigman]

8. The "mastermind" is 23 years old!

[Hortensis]

9. Good, if late. If creeps can find porn, law enforcement can too.

[BSdetect]

12. Whatever happened re Epstein's list of contacts?

[intheflow]

14. Yeah, that's a good question.

It's been about two months since the bust. Not too far fetched to imagine a connection, given the time it would take for 38 countries to coordinate an international bust like this.