International Child Exploitation convictions - 400,000 images
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Seven Defendants Convicted for Participation in International Child
Exploitation Enterprise Washington and Pensacola, Fla. – 1/14/09 - Seven U.S.
defendants charged for their activity in a global child pornography
trafficking
enterprise were convicted today in the Northern District of Florida....Members
of
the highly-sophisticated international network were charged in a 40-count
superseding indictment on March 19, 2008. Evidence presented at trial,
including approximately 50 witnesses and 500 exhibits, established that the
defendants participated in a well-organized criminal enterprise whose purpose
was to
proliferate child sex abuse images to its membership during a two-year period.
According to trial testimony, members of the illegal organization used
Internet newsgroups - large file-sharing networks where text, software,
pictures
and videos can be traded and shared - to traffic in illegal images and videos
depicting prepubescent children, including toddlers, engaged in various
sexual and sadistic acts. Specifically, an Australian constable who
infiltrated
the group in August 2006 testified about how group members employed a complex
system of pseudonyms, screening tests for new members and sophisticated
encryption methods to avoid detection. He also testified that the group traded
more
than 400,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse before it was
dismantled by law enforcement.
_http://jacksonville.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/childexploitation011409.htm_
(http://jacksonville.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/childexploitation011409.htm)
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