British children caught up in one of world's worst ever porn rings: More than 250 youngsters worldwide aged as young as three exploited through social networking sites

British children caught up in one of world's worst ever porn rings: More than 250 youngsters worldwide aged as young as three exploited through social networking sites

    British police are preparing to arrest dozens of men who accessed the secret obscene image-sharing website
    It comes after 14 U.S. men were arrested earlier this week as the authorities uncovered one of the world's worst ever pornography rings
    American Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced the major bust in a press conference on Tuesday
    The administrator of the website has been identified as Jonathan Johnson of Abita Springs, Louisiana
    A total of 251 children were connected to the website, and most of them were boys between the ages of of 13 and 15
    Two of the victims were 3 years old or younger

By James Slack, Home Affairs Editor  19 March 2014

....More than 27,000 subscribers to the vile secret network had access to 2,000 videos filmed on computer webcams.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US said they had arrested 14 American men who operated the member-only site from the southern state of Louisiana.

....They have been charged with running a child exploitation enterprise after allegedly distributing the material through the Tor network, or so-called 'dark web'.

This allows Internet anonymity by hiding online traffic and a user's location.

The network, which was operated for a year from mid-2012 to last June, was unmasked after an item was sent through the US Postal Service to a child.

....Over a period of just 47 working hours - the IWF logged 12,224 sexual images or videos of young people that had been uploaded to the internet.

Of these, 10,776 were later found on so-called 'parasite' websites, often designed solely for the purpose of displaying explicit images of children or teenagers.
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