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Child Porn Arrests in Australia
Jun 5th, 2008 by Jefferson
Seventy people have been arrested in Australia in a nationwide operation to crack down on the use of images of child sex abuse posted on the internet.
The arrests, which include a policeman and several teachers, followed a six month investigation by police into paedophile communities online.
The probe was launched after 95 explicit pictures were posted by a hacker on a respected European website.
Over 76 hours, the site had 12 million hits from 150,000 users in 170 nations.
More than 2,800 internet protocol (IP) addresses were traced back to Australia and then identified by police.
The first arrests were made in cases where young people might be at risk and four children had been taken from their homes, investigators said.