Australian police break up international pedophilia network
Posted March 5th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.foxnews.comGreat job, Aussies! Police in Australia have indicated that they have made significant progress in breaking up an international pedophilia network that ran all the way from Australia to the United States and Europe.
uthorities in Australia conducted raids and arrests on Feb. 29 not only in Australia and the U.S. but also in Britain and Germany, according to Reuters. Work on the sting — coordinated by the FBI and called Operation Achilles — has been ongoing since January 2006.
More than 40 children have been rescued and 22 members of the network been taken into custody as part of the operation, Reuters reported. The pedophilia ring had customers in at least 19 countries, and police confiscated thousands of videos, photos and computers in the bust.
“It will be alleged that the network traded images depicting the violent sexual abuse of children globally, including having children sexually abused live and on demand for the benefit of its members,” police in the Australian state of Queensland said in a statement, according to Reuters.