AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – European police agency Europol said on Thursday it had arrested 115 alleged child sex offenders, some of them teachers or caretakers, in raids across 19 countries in an operation against child pornography.
Europol said a two-year international operation targeting child sex offenders on the internet had identified five children in different countries, aged between 4 and 12, who were the victims of sexual crimes. A total of 221 suspects were identified.
"Child sexual abuse is one of the most horrific crimes so I am extremely pleased in having these offenders identified and arrested," Europol director Rob Wainwright said in a statement.
"But most of all I am glad to see that vulnerable children have been identified and saved from further harm."
The offenders had a variety of professional backgrounds. Some were teachers or caretakers and therefore had close contact with children, Europol said.
The investigation was led by Austrian authorities, who found an internet service provider being misused as a distribution channel for child pornography. Europol then analyzed log files and reported back to involved countries.
Raids took place in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
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Europol arrests 115 suspects in child sex raids
Europol arrests 115 suspects in child sex raids
Nothing, and I mean nothing sickens me more than the abuse of children.
The harshest penalty of law should be brought down on these people, including the priests and bishops that hid it and protected those abusing children as in the recent report published here in Ireland.
Protecting the abusers, is as bad as committing the abuse.
Logging onto the internet and watching these things happen to children, is the same as committing the act itself.
What king of a human can justify and participate in this subhuman behavior?
The harshest penalty of law should be brought down on these people, including the priests and bishops that hid it and protected those abusing children as in the recent report published here in Ireland.
Protecting the abusers, is as bad as committing the abuse.
Logging onto the internet and watching these things happen to children, is the same as committing the act itself.
What king of a human can justify and participate in this subhuman behavior?
Europol arrests 115 suspects in child sex raids
mikeinie;1271639 wrote: Nothing, and I mean nothing sickens me more than the abuse of children.
The harshest penalty of law should be brought down on these people, including the priests and bishops that hid it and protected those abusing children as in the recent report published here in Ireland.
Protecting the abusers, is as bad as committing the abuse.
Logging onto the internet and watching these things happen to children, is the same as committing the act itself.
What king of a human can justify and participate in this subhuman behavior?
No kind at all - they're worse than animals
The harshest penalty of law should be brought down on these people, including the priests and bishops that hid it and protected those abusing children as in the recent report published here in Ireland.
Protecting the abusers, is as bad as committing the abuse.
Logging onto the internet and watching these things happen to children, is the same as committing the act itself.
What king of a human can justify and participate in this subhuman behavior?
No kind at all - they're worse than animals
Europol arrests 115 suspects in child sex raids
Bryn Mawr;1271666 wrote: No kind at all - they're worse than animals :mad:We are animals! But i understand what you mean, though i would make the case we are the "bad" animals because we're the only animal capable and willing to destroy the planet and each other for trivial reasons.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,â€
Voltaire
I have only one thing to do and that's
Be the wave that I am and then
Sink back into the ocean
Fiona Apple
Voltaire
I have only one thing to do and that's
Be the wave that I am and then
Sink back into the ocean
Fiona Apple
Europol arrests 115 suspects in child sex raids
Ahso!;1271671 wrote: We are animals! But i understand what you mean, though i would make the case we are the "bad" animals because we're the only animal capable and willing to destroy the planet and each other for trivial reasons.
Certainly we're animals but we aspire to be so much more and this proves that some of us are so much less.
Certainly we're animals but we aspire to be so much more and this proves that some of us are so much less.