Online child porn rings hard to track

Online pedophiles are forming relationships with one another in so-called grey chatrooms, before moving offline to communicate, making it harder for police to detect them.As the Australian Federal Police prepared to execute search warrants as part of a crackdown on child pornography, AFP manager of hi-tech crimes and child protection operations Neil Gaughan said online child sex offenders were among the hardest criminals to profile.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25566534-5013404,00.htmlAlso see:Australia’s pedophile jail terms ‘too light’
Australia’s child pornography laws have been shown to be lenient, with US members of an internet pedophile ring jailed for life while its Townsville-based co-founder launches an appeal against his non-parole sentence of 32 months.Former Australia Post human resources regional manager Derek Richard Mara, 30, will next month fight to have his commonwealth jail term cut after he was convicted as one of the four founding members of the internet’s oldest known pedophile ring, The Group, which financed made-to-order abuse movies and picture shoots of children, some just a few months old.
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