Paedophile Ring Dismantled in Britain (Updated)

[Jimmy H.]

Update: the article has been updated since I posted that early version. The URL is the same, though (Triggering): guardian. co.uk/crime/article/0,,2105771,00.html
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Police smash global web paedophile ring

Press Association
Monday June 18, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Police have smashed a global internet paedophile ring with more than 700 suspects worldwide, a British law enforcement agency said today.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre said about 200 of the suspects are based in the UK, and 31 children have been rescued from abuse.

The paedophiles used an internet chatroom called Kids the Light of Our Lives to swap photos and videos of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse.

The past 10 months of the huge police investigation has involved agencies from 35 countries around the world.

A member of the internet chatroom who has admitted nine offences of possessing or distributing indecent images of children is due to be sentenced at Ipswich crown court later today.

Timothy David Martyn Cox, 27, of Buxhall, near Stowmarket, was said by Ceop to have hosted the website, assuming the online identity Son of God. He was arrested in September last year, which allowed undercover officers to infiltrate the chatroom and gather evidence on other members.