Child Porn Ring Uncovered in Austria

[Hannah]

Child Porn Ring Uncovered in Austria

Austria Authorities Say They've Uncovered Global Child Porn Ring Involving 2,360-Plus Suspects

By VERONIKA OLEKSYN

VIENNA, Austria Feb 7, 2007 (AP)— Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who paid to view videos of young children being sexually abused.
The children were under the age of 14 and screams could be heard, said Harald Gremel, an Austrian police expert on Internet crime who headed the investigation.
Interior Minister Guenther Platter said the FBI was investigating about 600 of the suspects in the United States. German authorities were following leads on another 400 people, France was looking into about 100 others, and at least 23 suspects were Austrians, he said.
Platter said videos downloaded from the Internet and seized by Austria's Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau included images that showed "the worst kind of child sexual abuse."
Gremel said "girls could be seen being raped, and you could also hear screams." Although officials initially said the children ranged in ages from "0 to 14," Gremel later said no infants were seen in the videos.
No Austrian suspects were yet in custody, authorities said, adding that they shared their information with law enforcement in other countries in hopes that suspects could be investigated and charged. Gremel said he could not provide details about investigations outside Austria, but noted that cooperation with Russian authorities had intensified over the past two weeks.
The investigation began in July when a man working for a Vienna-based Internet file hosting service approached authorities at the Interior Ministry to say he noticed the pornographic material during a routine check, Gremel said.
The man blocked access to the videos while recording the I.P. addresses of people who continued to try to download the material, and gave the details to authorities. Neither the man nor the Vienna company were identified, and police said neither was implicated in the case.
Within a 24-hour period, investigators recorded more than 8,000 hits from 2,361 computer I.P. addresses in 77 countries ranging from Algeria to South Africa, Gremel told reporters.
The videos were posted on a Russian Web site, and users had to pay $89 to access the material, Gremel said.
He said investigators believed the videos, which included images of girls and boys up to age 14, were made in Eastern Europe and uploaded to the site from somewhere in Britain.
Germany had the largest single number of suspects in Europe, Gremel said.
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[Peanut]

AI! RUN FOR THE HILLS! THEY FOUND YOU!

Burn it all!

[愛]

OH CRAP! THEY FOUND ME OUT! Alright, look. I'm gonna be gone for a while. I gotta back up these videos and lay low until the heat is off. Peanut, you're in charge of video games now, okay? I'll be back!

[Raph's Girl]

Holy fraking shell! Those poor kids!! All under the age of 14. Man....where's that memory erasing pill from Boston Legal when ya need it.

[That Matt Guy]

How the hell do you have porn of someone age 0?

[LogicDonny]

Originally Posted by Ai

OH CRAP! THEY FOUND ME OUT! Alright, look. I'm gonna be gone for a while. I gotta back up these videos and lay low until the heat is off. Peanut, you're in charge of video games now, okay? I'll be back!

joke! lol..

damn this is good news to hear how they found these perverts!

[Hannah]

Originally Posted by Doctor Strange

How the hell do you have porn of someone age 0?

My thoughts exactly.

[Ecto Jedi]

Originally Posted by Doctor Strange

How the hell do you have porn of someone age 0?

Umm...I'm guessing that denotes a child who hasn't yet reached the age of 1. Y'know, there's a whole year between 0 and 1.

[Ra]

Originally Posted by Doctor Strange

How the hell do you have porn of someone age 0?

With a blender, a cup of water, and a whole frickin' load of pixie dust

At times it makes me wonder why the hell some guy would want to f*** a kid. I mean, you could paint, you could run, you could go to a strip club or something, but no. You have to go and run an international child porn ring based in Austria...

Oh, and Ai? May I suggest heading for New Zealand? Everyone over looks poor little New Zealand in these sorts of situations

[Hannah]

Originally Posted by Ecto Jedi

Umm...I'm guessing that denotes a child who hasn't yet reached the age of 1. Y'know, there's a whole year between 0 and 1.

Yeah, normally they're refferred to by how many months old they are. These would be infants- I would imagine it would be hard to do many... things with them.



That's possibly the most annoying emoticon ever, please stop using it?

[Raph's Girl]

A local man (a teacher at a catholic school connected with the Seattle Arch Dioces... talk about 2 birds with one stone) was caught in the ring on a school computer. He apperantly really likes 10 year old boys....

The Seattle Arch Dioces is of course investigating it further (yes...Im sure they are...*caughs*) with the FBI and stuff. Man I bet Raphael (the patron Saint of the Seattle Arch Dioces) is pissed.

[Ecto Jedi]

Originally Posted by Hannah

That's possibly the most annoying emoticon ever, please stop using it?

Anything for you, Hannah.

[That Matt Guy]

Originally Posted by Hannah

These would be infants- I would imagine it would be hard to do many... things with them.

Yeah that's what I meant.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Ecto Jedi

Anything for you, Hannah.

I know we're in a thread about child porn, but don't get any ideas. She's just a kid.

[Ecto Jedi]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I know we're in a thread about child porn, but don't get any ideas. She's just a kid.

Way to kill the fun. Tool...