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This is good and awful to hear.

QUEENSLAND police sparked an international operation that smashed an international child pornography ring and netted nine local suspects who are facing a total of 188 charges.

A 47-year-old Kallangur man who allegedly filmed himself sexually assaulting his four-year-old granddaughter is among those so far charged after more than two million images were found in their collective possession.

NSW police yesterday confirmed 11 separate investigations were under way, but no arrests had been made. West Australian police also are investigating but have not yet laid charges.

Some other states and territories are understood to be co-operating with the Australian Federal Police in an Australia-wide search for those who subscribed to a European website that sold home-made videos of underage girls that customers were able to order tailor-made or even appear in themselves.

Detective Superintendent Peter Crawford yesterday revealed how Queensland officers had sparked the investigation involving 28 countries when they uncovered a European-made pornographic video on the internet in late 2006.

The operation led to the arrest of a 42-year-old Italian filmmaker who was running a website from his Ukrainian studio.

From that arrest, police identified 2500 subscribers across the world, and in Europe alone have made 92 arrests and located 23 child victims aged between nine and 16.

It’s awful because child sex abuse is awful; it’s good because a sex ring has been broken up. I just hope The Law keeps it up, everywhere.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 at 10:22 am and is filed under Outside Retort (Current Affairs).