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Worldwide porn ring bust
05/11/2007 20:16 - (SA)
The Hague - Police have dismantled a global
child pornography network that produced 'tailor-made' videos for about 2 500 customers in 19 countries, European officials said on Monday.
Police seized thousands of computers, videos and photographs
in a co-ordinated investigation, dubbed "Operation Koala", that was launched after the arrest of an Italian national running a website selling videos of underage girls.
They said the videos were mainly produced in Ukraine and
included a father sexually abusing his daughters aged nine and
11. Police have identified 23 children aged between nine and 16
who were abused by the network.
European police agency Europol and the European Union's
justice division Eurojust said in a joint statement
representatives from 28 countries had worked on the case.
"Upon request the children wore suggestive lingerie, at
times bought by the customers themselves. "Requests on how to
pose were also given and some customers even travelled to the
studio in order to attend the video shoots," they said.
- Reuters
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