'World's largest paedophile ring' uncovered, priest abuse case

'World's largest paedophile ring' uncovered
16 March 2011 By Dominic Casciani BBC News home affairs correspondent
International police led by a UK team say they shut down the largest internet paedophile ring yet discovered.

The global forum had 70,000 followers at its height, leading to 4,000 intelligence reports being sent to police across 30 countries.

The operation has so far identified 670 suspects and 230 abused children. Detectives say 184 people have been arrested - 121 of them were in the UK. Some 60 children have been protected in the UK.

The three-year investigation, Operation Rescue, was led by investigators from the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop). Speaking at a news conference at The Hague in the Netherlands, investigators said the network hid behind a legal online forum which operated out of the country - but its members came from around the world.
Along with the Netherlands and the UK, suspects have been identified in Australia, Italy, Canada, New Zealand and Thailand.

The members of the network went into a private channel, boylover.net, and then used its secret systems to share films and images of abused children, said Rob Wainwright, director of European police agency Europol.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12762333

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10108720

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http://m.philly.com/phillycom/db_/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=077E98FEED1D9AE045148527BC666D1D?contentguid=fJPVsew9&full=true#display

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wbOyLDJU3c&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Holy See accused of flouting UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - At the plenary session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday 15 March 2011, Keith Porteous Wood of Britain's National Secular Society accused the Holy See of contravening its duties under the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child in relation to child abuse.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SecularismOrgUK?feature=mhum