Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Huge child porn ring - 30,000 customers, China's crackdown on human trafficking

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HUGE child porn ring with Arizona link
China's crackdown on human trafficking frees 16,517 abducted women, children
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HUGE child porn ring with Arizona link - Katie Raml, Nicole Longhini Sep 22, 2010
An international child porn ring with ties to Arizona has been shut down.
For the first time, law enforcement officials are sharing the latest, inside details in a case involving 30,000 customers, 132 countries and more than 230 websites.
Law enforcement officials from around the globe are calling it the most important child pornography bust in the history of the Internet.
Matthew Allen is Special Agent in Charge for Homeland Security Investigation and Immigration Customs Enforcement in Arizona.
He oversees any leads identified in Arizona by the international child pornography bust, otherwise known as Project Flicker.

"If the average American were to see it they would be completely outraged at the kind of victimization that goes on," Allen said. "[It] resulted in more than 5,000 leads in the United States involving individuals who have subscribed or downloaded child pornography from websites."....
Among those identified as customers were 10,000 Americans. Individuals who subscribed were given access to images and videos of sexually exploited boys and girls, some possibly as young as three-years old. "[Their ages] spanned from infancy all the way to adulthood," Allen said.
http://knxv.m0bl.net/w/main/story/14177879/

China's crackdown on human trafficking frees 16,517 abducted women, children - English.news.cn 2010-09-20
BEIJING, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) - Chinese police freed 10,621 women and 5,896 children who had been abducted for human trafficking as of September 6,since the Ministry of Public Security launched a crackdown on trafficking the crime in April last year.
In the campaign, police nationwide apprehended 2,398 human trafficking gangs and handled 13,500 such cases, said the ministry in a statement on Sunday.
Further, the police put 15,673 suspects under criminal detention and handed out administrative penalties on 1,518 people, it said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-09/20/c_13520175.htm

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