Police Smash World-wide Pedophile Ring

[mcd]

Undercover officers in Britain, the U.S., Canada and Australia busted up an Internet chat room used by pedophiles who streamed live videos of children being raped, rescuing 31 children and identifying more than 700 suspects worldwide.

The chat room, which was called "Kids the Light of Our Lives," featured images, including live videos, of children — some only months old — being subjected to horrific sexual abuse, said Jim Gamble, chief executive of Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center.

"You could go and if you were in the club, arrange a time and a place when online you could view a child being raped and brutalized in real time," he said.

More than 15 children were found in Britain, Gamble said, declining to give further details. A Canadian official said authorities there arrested 24 Canadians and rescued seven Canadian children as part of the probe. Four people have been arrested in Australia, including one who was previously convicted of child pornography charges, officials said Tuesday.

Describing it as "a massive leap forward," Gamble said the investigation involved agencies from 35 countries. Investigators made the case public after the sentencing of ringleader Timothy David Martyn Cox on Monday.Gamble said.

Police arrested Cox on Sept. 28, charging him with nine offenses related to possessing and distributing indecent images of children. Forensic teams examining Cox's computer found 75,960 indecent and explicit images and evidence that he had supplied 11,491 images to other site users.

Weeks later, British police saw the chat room had been resurrected. Working with Canadian, Australian and U.S. authorities in December, they again infiltrated the chat room, working around the clock. Authorities traced the new host to an apartment in Welwyn Garden City, 30 miles north of London, belonging to the 33-year-old Mackintosh, a manager at a video streaming company owned by the Italian Internet company Tiscali.

After he was arrested, police took over his identity and continued to run the chat room, collecting more evidence. Mackintosh told investigators that every few months he was overcome by guilt and would delete all his files, but he was addicted and would start downloading again, Gamble said. He had 5,167 indecent and explicit images and 392 indecent movie files on his computer when he was arrested.

Gamble said he hoped the 10-month operation into the ring would act as a powerful warning.

"Anyone who even thinks about going online to share an image, to view an image, to arrange access to a child or to share live access to a child is now taking a hel_l of a chance," Gamble said.

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[eek]

words fail here really. Sexual abuse of a child is one of the worse things an adult can do. Im glad that steps are being taken to track and punish pedophiles, but sad that its always so rampant.

Im also glad to see some advertising in Thailand against child abuse and asking people to report.

Please dont turn a blind eye if you see child abuse.

[skippybangkok]

PEDOPHILE IN PATTAYA:

DEAF AND DUMB PAEDOPHILE ARRESTED IN PATTAYA

PATTAYA TOURIST POLICE ARREST ENGLISH TEACHER FOR ALLEGED PAEDOPHILIA

Was just thinking that some of the international schools must of been robbed of their best and brightest teachers...... Guess the posting beat me to it.

Monsters should be castrated Himler style.

Edited June 19, 2007 by skippybangkok

[Robski]

Skippybangkok; Was just thinking that some of the international schools must of been robbed of their best and brightest teachers...... Guess the posting beat me to it.

Rather sad to be making crass remarks on such a serious subject.

As I recal the last coupple of abuse cases in Pattaya involved Thai men.

Well done to the authorities and I hope it leads to even less suffering in this sick world.

Edited June 20, 2007 by Robski

[sriracha john]

Thread on 2nd case here:

Briton Arrested For Alleged Child Molestation

[ProfessorNiceGuy]

Thread on 2nd case here:

Briton Arrested For Alleged Child Molestation

Question on "moderation" - why is it that "teacher bashing" (in some cases just statement of facts) is deemed a hangable offence ?? Maybe certain mods are over sensitve about the perception the public have about their jobs ?

Instead of the preferred "Thaksin route" ( Censorship ), maybe its best to clean up the root cause, which are the lax standards the country and government have to controlling this industry.

[girlx]

"You could go and if you were in the club, arrange a time and a place when online you could view a child being raped and brutalized in real time," he said.

this makes me sick. these people should be tortured to death.

[keebone]

"You could go and if you were in the club, arrange a time and a place when online you could view a child being raped and brutalized in real time," he said.

this makes me sick. these people should be tortured to death.

I made a post on another Thailand based forum saying that paedophiles deserve a hammer round the head and 1 of the mods on there threatened me with a banning over it because he said this was a death threat.

Always made me wonder why he felt the need to stand up for the rights of paedophiles

I see he's a member on here but does not post very often. He has since lost his status as a mod on the other forum.

[colino]

People like this should have the death sentence after they have been locked up with heavy duty crims for a few months