Police Rescue 50 Children in Massive Pedophile Ring Bust

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Police bust international pedophile ring, rescue 50 children

A total of fifty children were rescued Thursday after international police busted a massive pedophile ring.

Nine people were arrested by Interpol in the US, Australia, and Thailand following an investigation into an online pedophile ring operating on the dark web.

Authorities are expecting many more arrests to come as police proceed with the investigation in nearly 60 countries, with an estimated 63,000 users worldwide.

BBC News reports: Police believe 100 more children have suffered abuse and are working to identify them.

Operation Blackwrist was launched by Interpol after it detected images showing 11 boys aged under 13 being abused on a site where people can use encrypted software to maintain secrecy.

The dark net is an internet area beyond the reach of mainstream search engines.

The US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) department traced the IP address of the website, which was hosting photos and videos of abuse.

Police say the abusers uploaded new images on a weekly basis and often masked the children’s faces to make it harder for investigators to identify them.

The first arrests came last year, when the site’s main administrator, Montri Salangam, was detained in Thailand, and another administrator, Ruecha Tokputza, was caught in Australia.

Salangam, who abused one of his nephews, was sentenced to 146 years in prison in Thailand, while an accomplice, a pre-school teacher, got 36 years.

Tokputza was sentenced to 40 years on Friday after pleading guilty to 51 charges against 11 babies and boys, the heaviest sentence ever handed down in Australia for child sex offences.

Police found thousands of images taken in both Thailand and Australia on his devices. In some of them Tokputza was the main abuser. The youngest victim to be identified was 15 months old.

“You are a child’s worst nightmare, you are every parent’s horror, you are a menace to the community,” Judge Liesl Chapman said in Adelaide.

The identities of the others arrested are yet to be released, but some are residing in the US and held public positions of trust, said Eric McLoughlin, the HSI’s regional attache in Bangkok.

1 Comment

  1. OMG !! They are not “homosexual” pedophiles .. Aren’t they ?? Just normal hetero man loving to rape little boys ??

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