Police nab 700 in global pedophile ring (rescued 31 children)

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

LONDON - Police smashed a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, authorities said Monday.

Some 200 suspects are based in Britain, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center said. The ring was traced to an Internet chat room called "Kids the Light of Our Lives" that featured images of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse.

The investigation involves agencies from 35 countries and lasted 10 months.

The host of the Web site, Timothy David Martyn Cox, 27, of Buxhall, who used the online identity "Son of God," admitted to nine counts of possessing and distributing indecent images, authorities said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070618/ap_on_re_eu/britain_pedophile_ring

[Fridays Child]

1. Child rapists rank right up there with the most pathological murderers.

I know it won't happen but I believe that everyone found guilty in this case should be put to death.

[xultar]

2. BRAVO!!! I can't stand those nasty people.

[mzmolly]

3. Police smash global pedophile ring

Source: Associated Press

LONDON - British police, with aid from U.S. investigators, have shattered a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, authorities said Monday.

Some 200 suspects are based in Britain, said the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center, a government agency. Of the 31 children, some only a few months old, more than 15 were in Britain, the center said.

British authorities would not break down where the other suspects or children came from. A Canadian official said 24 Canadians were arrested and seven children rescued, but added that the time period was longer than the more than 10 months the British said their portion of the investigation lasted. U.S. officials declined to comment because their investigation is continuing.

The ring was traced to an Internet chat room called "Kids the Light of Our Lives" that featured images of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse — including streaming live videos.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070618/ap_on_re_eu/britain_pedophile_ring

[DS1]

4. Please follow up with smashing of genitals

[mzmolly]

6. Agreed.

LOL. Though, it's tough to laugh after hearing about something like this your comment did bring a chuckle, thanks.

[quiet.american]

5. Demonic -- kudos to the police who busted this scum. n/t

[mzmolly]

8. Kind of makes me wax nostalgic for the days of public hangings.

UGH.

[krispos42]

7. giant deli slicer for the perps

set to 'paper thin'.

And plenty of drugs to make the blood clot quickly.

[mzmolly]

11. And I thought my suggestion of public hanging over the top?

I guess this brings out the vigilante in us all? Nothing more disgusting than victimizing children.

[krispos42]

13. Lock and load with child molesters

I know, I know, slipperly slope and all that. BUT...

I'd rather have child molesters in Gitmo than the people we have their currently.

[mzmolly]

14. I agree fully.

Peace

[Deep13]

9. Wow, 700 arrests!

:applause: I wonder if England will try them all or if other countries will handle some of them.

[mzmolly]

10. And rescued children.

I just can't fathom this shit.

[Deep13]

19. It's horrible.

Of course when something is so obviously horrible as this, it almost demeans the suffering of the victims by pointing out how horrible it is as if it was not apparent. I have to deal with this crap in the D.A.'s office. I keep a generous supply of Pepto Bismol on hand for those cases.

[mzmolly]

30. Goodness, I can't imagine.

:hug: < for you.

[Wickerman]

12. THAT is the kind of thing the DOJ should focus on

Not the political crap that resources have been wasted on for 6 years. Kudos to the British - shame on the the Bush** DOJ for not leading the way.

[tanyev]

15. My first thought was to wonder how many loyal Bushies got rounded up.

There's a reason the DOJ isn't spending much time on this kind of thing.

[Boo Boo]

21. They do. It's a major focus. Obviously, I hate to give Bush credit for

anything, but if there is one bright spot in all the Bushie madness, this is it. The DOJ has been pursuing child porn with a vengeance.

[mzmolly]

33. I hope it continues.

Indeed, if there is an "up side" this could be it. However, I would imagine the courts could authorize this sort of surveillance?

[superconnected]

16. The people here calling for murder scare me more than the peds.

It's the idea that that name has become a code word to well up so much animosty where one human would do anything - what skin alive, another. And it's accepted to do it in pack violence.

Fucking scary.

All I have to do is read these posts to understand how 200 people could stone that 16yo in iraq to death for having an islamic lover. To them it was just another form of the accepted mass hatred for one of the marginalized.

And of course it shows me the group mentality of those towns in south america that pour gasoline on a person and light a match - with everyone in town cheering them on.

Peds are bad. They are scum. But to join the pack mentality and call it an acceptable circumstance to become barbarians willing to do anything to another human, is even worse.

I expect to again be called ped for not adopting the torture mentality. But, I assure you guys I'm simply a fucking vegetarian who can't stand your bloodlust.

[Malidictus Maximus]

23. No, it's scary that ANYONE would NOT

wish a slow, painful and public death for each and every one of the peds.

I'll say it loud and proud -there is NO punishment ever conceived or applied by H.Sapiens that is sufficient for these folks.

[superconnected]

25. The ones filming and raping the kids - natural to want that.

And I suppose the several hundred who downloaded the photos.

Hate justified. But torturous murder enacted by civlians in a pack. No, no crime is justified for that.

The perps here are a problem because they broke the pack of humanity. You DON'T do that to children. The worst out come isn't the child though - which is bad, it's that then humanity is willing to break all civility and become barbarians to "get" the perp who broke the original pack.

No, I won't concede to that. These guys need to be dealt with in court. They can be leathally injected for all I care. But they need to be dealt with by a civilized society, not barbarians.

As soon as we become barbarians we are no better than they are.

[mzmolly]

32. I don't think anyone here actually feels as though the courts won't handle this.

People are venting, it's part of what we do here.

[redqueen]

41. exactly n/t

[mzmolly]

31. Having a willing lover of the same age is NOT akin to victimizing a child.

Do you think that those who raped and murdered the Iraqi girl and her family should face harsh consequences? Or should they be treated like someone who had a willing "lover?" People are venting a bit... Imagine it were YOUR child for a moment?

[Megahurtz]

35. I Bet You're Not A Parent.

:think:

[SayWhatYo]

39. Here's my question..

out of the people saying(typing) those words, how many would actually do what they said? I'm guessing very few, if any, would skin the pedos alive... Now, if people started rounding up these guys and executing them in such fashion, then I would agree with you.

[muriel_volestrangler]

43. Of those posting on DU, probably not many, if any

because I do credit the normal DUers with stopping and thinking before they act (if not type).

But in the wider world? Yes, I can see some torturing people to death. As an example of the knee jerk violence of people in this area:

Paediatrician attacks 'ignorant' vandals

A hospital paediatrician has hit out at vandals who forced her to flee her home after apparently taking her job title to mean she was a paedophile.

South African-born Yvette Cloete - a 30-year-old trainee consultant at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, south Wales - said she planned to move home after returning to find the outside of her property daubed with the words "paedo".

She said she can not rule out the possibility that the paint attack was connected with her job at the hospital.
...
She condemned the campaign by the News of the World to name and shame paedophiles in the community.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/901723.stm

The News of the World is a tabloid newspaper (the biggest selling Sunday paper in Britain, I think) who wanted a "Megan's Law" in Britain. Luckily, the government didn't bow to the pressure.

[Hekate]

17. ..."some only a few months old" -- oh.my.gods.

:cry:

This is law enforcement I can fully support. I'm glad they got some of the kids out -- you know there are others out there, but I'm glad for the 31.

Hekate

[Deep13]

20. I had a case like that once.

Truly revolting. The only case I ever had where the three-judge court of appeals panel was visibly disturbed by the facts. There was one victim and multiple offenses. He plead guilty to several counts of a lesser-included offense because the victim was too young and too traumatized to testify. The court gave maximum, consecutive sentences resulting in 85 years in prison. Ohio does not give time off for good behavior.

[mzmolly]

34. I just can't imagine.

:(

[redqueen]

42. thank goodness no time off...

cases like these deserve life, first offense, imo

monsters...

[burrowowl]

18. WOW!

They nab 700 (is this the 700 Club) and they only rescue 31 children!
I am amazed!

[superconnected]

22. Most of the people were probably people who visited the site or downloaded

The child rape videos. I don't believe in thought crimes - ie looking at a picture and going to jail for it, but it sure is tempting to believe in punnishment for them under circumstances like this.

I'm glad they caught people making the videos.

What's odd is how many thousands of people were visiting that site. You'd have thought the authorities would have shut it down sooner. Instead they made a 2 year investigation of it.

[ddbaj]

24. Wow

What a sick thread. If you say X group of people are worth being tortured and killed, then how can you be against when someone else has a different X? I'm going to barf.

[superconnected]

26. I agree completely.

[NashVegas]

28. Okies ... Just Blind Them

SC - anyone who went into that chat room with the intent of looking at this stuff & downloading it is accessory to the crime.

[burrowowl]

29. Yes one would

I guess some people are/were making a lot of money.

[Iris]

40. They weren't looking at pictures. They were orchestrating and watching live assaults.

That's criminal.

And even if many of them did only download tapes or videos, they are basically watching a crime being perpetrated.

[lonestarnot]

27. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours

[davidthegnome]

36. So..

Some of the scum of the earth have been rounded up, likely to face some heavy fines and a few years in prison. Regardless, though, there's thousands more out there, this is merely the tip of the ice berg. I want to see the fuckers at the top go down. Well, I want to see them all go down. But, starting from the top is a good idea for me.

I'm not in favor of killing them, no, that's much too kind. I believe they should be neutered (or spade) and spend their lives in the deepest, darkest dungeons we can find for them. It's not their blood I want, it's their suffering. No amount of blood will make amends for what's been done to these children, they will live with nightmares, most likely, the rest of their lives. Many will develop PTSD as a result, many will be terrified of sex.

God damn, I hate child pedophiles - and I think no better of those who watch child porn. As the children will suffer the rest of their lives for this, so too, let this disgusting filth suffer. Life in prison without chance of parole, not to mention the punishment mentioned above.

Ugh, this kind of hatred is poisonous, but I can feel nothing else for that sort of person.

[MrSlayer]

37. Raping infants, toddlers and other children.

Send these "people" to the black sites for intense, prolonged "rehabilitation".

[Dulcinea]

38. Prison justice for them.

Put these sick lowlifes in the general prison population & let the inmates take care of the rest. Child murderers and rapists are the lowest of the low behind bars, too. If they met the same fate as Jeffrey Dahmer, I would shed no tears.