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Police say a Queen's Counsel from Victoria is among 19 Australian men arrested so far in relation to a global internet child abuse network.

 

Australian Federal Police say they have seized 15,000 videos and 500,000 images of children, some as young as 12 months old, being abused, with some of the images "among the worst" ever seen by investigating officers.

 

AFP Acting Deputy Commissioner of Operations Andrew Colvin says the 12-month investigation, called Operation Resistance, was sparked by a tip-off from Brazilian police.

 

He says there is no set profile of the offenders and they include the QC as well as childcare workers, a police officer, and the unemployed.

 

"The videos seized as part of this operation have to be among the worst we have seen," he said. "Some depicted sexual abuse of children lasting more than two hours."

 

The 19 arrested men come from New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. Another three Australian men are also being pursued through other court processes.

 

This morning one of the accused men, 24-year-old Blakehurst waiter Richard Lee, faced a Sydney court.

 

Magistrate Allan Moore adjourned the case until next week. Lee did not apply for bail and he was remanded in custody.

 

Lee was one of five men arrested in New South Wales over the alleged ring,

 

The AFP is expected to make more arrests this week.

 

Deputy Commissioner Colvin says at least two Australian children have been removed from harmful situations as a result of the investigation.

 

He says sharing child abuse videos will not be tolerated.

 

"If we are not knocking on your door this morning, then it could be tomorrow," he warned.

 

AFP Acting Assistant Commissioner Neil Geughan says the sexual abuse images involve children from all over the world.

 

"It is not specifically just Brazilian children," he said.

 

"We are finding with these type of images that it is very difficult for law enforcement to track them down but we are receiving information that they are based primarily in eastern Europe and North and South America."

 

Assistant Commissioner Geughan says the operation began last December after the AFP received information from the Brazilian Federal Police.

 

"We, through our international liaison network, received information from the Brazilian police that there was a large amount of males throughout the world in over 70 countries involved in the trading of this sort of information in a peer to peer network," he said.

 

"They passed the information on to the AFP and we then conducted significant inquiries with internet service providers and then moved forward."

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/11/2443608.htm

[Bangkoktraveler]

Sick bastards.

 

[Torneyboy]

Well done ...hope they rot in hell

[Redbaron]

They'll get sorted out in jail

[Guest lazyphil]

no. the internet must not be censored. its up to us what we view, anything less signifys a totalitarian state. ITS OUR RIGHT blah blah fucking blah.

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

Phil, you can't honestly think that censoring the Internet would change anything in the behavior of this sick fucks?

 

They'd find other ways to communicate and share their sick shit.

 

Sanuk!

 

[Guest lazyphil]

it would seriously limit their sick shit. this is a perfect case for internet censorship but people get so hysterical when this is spoken of......of course these bastards will find ways to ply their fucked up trade with or without the net. but tell me how?....postal service?....i dont think so.

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

"it would seriously limit their sick shit."

 

Would it really? They are very likely already using proxy servers, VPNs and loads of encryption. A government censoring the Internet is not really gonna mean all that much difference to them.

 

"....postal service?....i dont think so."

 

Wanna bet? Do you know what is inside each of the envelopes and packages you deliver?

 

Sanuk!

 

[drogon]

It wouldn't limit these sick people....

 

Since police agencies/governments have started to chase them they have been more and more undeground and hidden.

 

Exactly like other cyber criminals (cyber criminality is growing at an incredible rate)

 

 

Censor the internet would just piss people and furthermore would stop common people from helping the law enforcment agencies chasing these sickos.

-> currently it seems 40-60% of the investigations start because common people have received either pedo spam or stumbled upon such a network...

(downloading a file which is revealed to contain pedo stuff)

 

Currently, these criminals already use criminal method to exchange their data as KS mentioned a few of them.

 

Of course the "perfect" solution would be to effectively censor the web by checking every file exchange and website -> of course this is impossible...

 

Censor the web? How, by even basically using P2P networks they are able to exchange their files without notice or problems

(except when someone happens to download by accident one of their files then go find the police)

 

Except checking every file exchanged on the web this is impossible to stop them...and this is technically/financially impossible.

 

Before thinking about censoring the web -> plead for more funds to fight these sickos...some countries don't even have a cyber police section devoted to fighting these people.. other countries have a "cell" of just 10-20 law enforcement officers and of course they are usually not trained properly....

 

Currently the websites these sickos use are shut down repeatedly by authorities but maybe the US authorities should do something as it seems more than 60% of these websites use servers implanted in the USA...(and no they are not all in the Bahamas or Ukraina)

[Guest lazyphil]

i dont anymore but its far too risky i would have thought, to go via snail mail, but i take your point, proxy servers etc, they're ahead of the game. but not on this occasion.