Austrian police say they have broken an internet child porn ring that spanned 170 countries and involved nearly 1,000 people, including teachers and doctors.Police say they have charged nearly 190 men in Austria and confiscated 14,000 computers, drives and disks.The images showed naked children aged nine to 12 from the US and Paraguay.It is one of the biggest crackdowns on indecent images of children in Austria, and was assisted by police in Croatia, where the site was registered.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7941935.stmChild pornography ring broken up in Austria [Reuters]
The Austrian police said Friday they had broken an Internet child pornography ring that stretched across 170 countries, charging nearly 200 men and confiscating 14,000 computers, hard drives and diskettes.The site was visited 12 million times before it was shut down. “Unfortunately there were people involved who work closely with children, like teachers,” a federal police investigator, Harald Gremel, said at a news conference.
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Austria smashes child porn ring
Austrian police say they have broken an internet child porn ring that spanned 170 countries and involved nearly 1,000 people, including teachers and doctors.