Feds take down the world's 'largest dark web child porn marketplace'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have filed multiple charges against a 23-year-old South Korean man accused of running what they call the world's "largest dark web child porn marketplace."

The now-shuttered English-language site, called "Welcome to Video," contained more than 200,000 unique videos or nearly 8 terabytes of data showing sex acts involving children, toddlers and infants, according to the 18-page criminal indictment unsealed here Wednesday, and processed 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth more than $730,000.

According to prosecutors, the vast on-line store was run by Jong Woo Son, a South Korean citizen currently serving an 18-month prison sentence in his home country after his conviction on charges related to child pornography. The site operated from June 2015 until it was seized and shut down by U.S. authorities in March 2018.

At a press conference Wednesday morning, U.S. officials said 337 suspected users of the site had been arrested worldwide to date.

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[Coventina]

1. I just threw up in my mouth.

[normornot]

2. 0. Feds take down the world's 'largest dark web child porn marketplace'

Yeah but did they get Prince Andrew?

[Saviolo]

3. The terrifying line:

One user, Nicholas Stengel, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to child porn charges late last year and was sentenced to 15 years in prison: prosecutors said that he alone downloaded over 50 years worth of abusive videos. Nearly half of the videos seized were not previously known to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Downing. "There are many children depicted in these videos that have not been identified."

Apparently, most child porn that investigators find is all the same old stuff produced back in the 70's. Mostly they run into the same old thing again and again. But with over half of this trove of horror, it's packed with unidentified kids in new videos that are being produced. They're not recirculating old videos, they're making new videos of abused children, toddlers, and infants.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Is there any punishment too horrible for scum like this? I say no! 🤬

[MurrayDelph]

6. I favor castration

Using a wooden spoon.

[FakeNoose]

5. We have bitcoin to thank for making all this possible

Bitcoin is nothing but a pyramid scheme to benefit the pornographers and scammers. This website could not have stayed business using regular traceable cash/credit payments.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. Good

Hope they get killed in jail. Can't hurt kids when they're in a grave.