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Eighty People Caught In Net Paedophile Ring
News Spanish police broke an international child pornography ring on Friday, which had distributed more than 20,000 indecent images of children around the globe via the Internet. Twenty thousand indecent images of children primarily from poor areas in...
[April 23, 2001, 16:35]
14 Year Sentence For Net Paedophile
News A retired police officer who worked with children has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for the rape of four girls and the possession of thousands of indecent images of children on his home computer.
[February 26, 2001, 17:12]
Hoax Porn Site Traps Scottish Bank Manager
News He admitted making indecent images of children between 13 July, 1998 and 6 January, last year. Paul Chalmers, 43, was charged for downloading indecent pictures onto his computer's hard drive from the "stinger" site that was designed to trap...
[September 20, 2000, 10:33]
13-year-old Put On Register For Internet Paedophilia
News A dawn raid in March dubbed Operation Appal resulted in the immediate arrest of the teenager, after 326 indecent images were found on the hard drive of his PC. The teenager admitted to nine counts of possessing indecent photographs, and has been...
[May 15, 2001, 17:07]
Wonderland Used Encryption To Swap Child Abuse Pictures
News Seven UK men appeared before Kingston Crown Court for their first day of sentencing, charged with the distribution of indecent images of children over the Internet through an international pornography ring dubbed the "Wonderland Club".
[February 13, 2001, 9:32]
Law Makes Scotland Attractive To Net Paedophiles, Says Expert
News He is adamant that the more lenient penalties for downloading or distributing indecent images of children over the Internet in Scotland will push offenders north of the border. The three appeal court judges rejected the view that child pornography...
[October 24, 2001, 10:08]
Seven Britons Guilty Over Child Porn Ring
News To become a member of the club, interested parties were asked to submit 10,000 indecent images of children after receiving an invite from an existing member. Another man, David Chaiken, 36, a computer consultant from Holmleaze, Maidenhead, Berks...
[January 10, 2001, 15:59]
Thus Bends Law To Avoid Responsibility For Child Porn
News The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) -- the regulatory body responsible for protecting children online -- currently checks for indecent images on the Web by sight, which involves downloading child pornography in order to assess whether or not...
[March 28, 2001, 16:37]
Police Target Chatrooms In Latest Paedophile Arrests
News Officers explained that the large number of arrests showed that the police were committed to apprehending those who possess and distribute indecent images of children. Today's nationwide operation should send out a loud message to those people who...
[April 24, 2002, 11:23]
Huge Raid On Alleged Net Paedophiles
News Search warrants were issued under the Protection of Children Act, which makes it illegal to possess or trade indecent images of children over the Net. The joint project shows that the tools are available to help safeguard Internet users -- whether...
[March 27, 2001, 10:50]
Former Wonderland Club Member Jailed Again
News Police in Sussex and the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) arrested the second-time offender, and charged him with 13 counts of distributing and 32 counts of producing indecent images of children.
[November 1, 2004, 14:44]
Blind Man Faces Prosecution For Listening To Child Porn
News The Protection of Children Act 1978 initially made it illegal to produce photos of children being sexually abused, whilst the Criminal Justice and Public Order Amendments in 1994 expanded this definition to deal with pseudo images of child...
[June 25, 2001, 18:24]
Wonderland Paedophiles Are Sentenced
News Judge Macrae told the men that despite "pandering to the basest interests of man" they would have to be given credit for pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children. Three-quarters of a million indecent images of...
[February 13, 2001, 14:28]
Paedophile Swoop Nets 13-year-old
News Paedophile activity on the Internet in the form of exchanging indecent images of children is growing rapidly. In 1995 the Greater Manchester Unit seized a total of 12 indecent images, but by 1999 the figure was 41,000 -- all but three in digital form.
[March 28, 2001, 8:20]
Net-porn Filtering Hit With Lawsuits
News They succeeded in derailing major portions of both the US' Communications Decency Act -- which would have made it a felony to deliver indecent material over the Net -- and the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) -- which would outlaw companies that...
[March 21, 2001, 8:29]
Child Porn Cases On The Rise In Ireland
News In the first half of 2001, 277 cases of indecent images were recorded, whereas a total of 378 complaints were reported in the whole of 2000. Of the reports received between January and June in 2001, 251 related to indecent images of children, and...
[February 6, 2002, 15:27]
News Burst: Internet Child Porn Case To Go Online
News Seven men are accused of conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children between November 1996 and September 1998. Over £5,000 is estimated to have been spend installing high-tech equipment at Kingston Crown Court, which the trial prosecution...
[January 9, 2001, 14:32]
Fourteen Arrested After Internet Child Porn Investigation
News The Metropolitan Police said that Barcela concentrated on those who use the Internet to distribute indecent images of children, and that these latest arrests showed the police were determined to clamp down on this illegal practice.
[October 30, 2001, 15:22]
Encryption Foils Internet Child Porn Prosecutions
News Unsuccessful British efforts to decipher the 1,200 indecent images traded by the Wonderland club are contrasted by the more recent success of Operation Appal, the largest proactive investigation ever undertaken in the UK to crack down on Internet...
[August 3, 2001, 14:10]
UK Suspects Arrested In Internet Paedophile Crackdown
News Over the past 12 months, more than 30 newsgroups known to regularly host indecent images of children were closely monitored by international police forces. The dawn swoops are reported to have discovered 60,000 images of child pornography.
[November 28, 2001, 11:31]
