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March 21, 2014
British children using social networking sites have unwittingly been the victim of one of the world’s worst ever child pornography rings, it has emerged.
Police are preparing to make arrests across the UK of dozens of men who had paid to access the secret obscene image-sharing website.
The US authorities – which smashed the international ring – called it ‘one of the largest known online child exploitation operations in history’.
Many of the victims were contacted via social network sites and ‘enticed to produce sexually explicit material’.
Some of the men responsible tricked them by posing as females.
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.
Investigators have so far identified 251 child victims, of whom 243 were boys.
There were 228 Americans and a total of 23 from Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Belgium.
The majority were aged 13 to 15, but 33 were aged under 12 and two were aged just three.
The UK’s National Crime Agency has been handed detailed intelligence on British users of the site, who now face being arrested.
Daniel Ragsdale, of the Department of Homeland Security, said: ‘Never before in the history of this agency have we identified and located this many minor victims in the course of a single child exploitation investigation.’
He said the agency was fighting ‘a growing trend where children are being enticed, tricked and coerced online by adults to produce sexually explicit material of themselves’.
Some of the 14 alleged operators assumed female identities to contact their targets on popular social network sites.
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.
At least 300 subscribers to the site in the US and overseas face lesser charges.
An NCA spokesman said: ‘We can confirm that information was sent to the CEOP command from our law enforcement colleagues in the United States.
‘A number of disseminations have been made to UK police forces, but as investigations are ongoing, we cannot comment further at this time.’
