Police in Germany have busted one of the biggest ever online pedophile rings with over 1,600 suspects identified as having participated in child rape and torture.
While most of the pedophiles came from across the country, digital forensic experts had picked out people from the US, Austria, Switzerland and France on suspicion of possessing or sharing images of child sex abuse in the online chat groups.
According to a statement from Bavarian police, the suspects were being evaluated as part of “two large-scale trials” being prepared by police and prosecutors to clamp down on pedophilia in the country.
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If convicted, all suspects would be looking at a prison term of “not less than a year.”
Rt.com reports: Police officers in the Bavarian town of Amberg had been on to the online chats after coming across an advertisement earlier in March. The chats contained graphic videos and images of sex acts with children, adolescents and animals.
Hinting at the scale of the five-month investigation, Amberg police said that they had “several hundred thousand” pages of information on the suspects – enough to fit in “21 large moving boxes.”
“The distribution of child and adolescent pornography has increased markedly in recent years and is an area of focus for us in many investigations,” Peter Krämer, deputy head of criminal police investigations in Amberg, said.
“As well as people with pedophile tendencies, it is often children and adolescents who share material like this in group chats without thinking, and who therefore regularly open themselves up to criminal prosecution,” he added.
The investigators also warned that even membership in such group chats would be enough grounds for prosecution in Germany – since it pointed to the possibility of an individual either having access to, or possessing copies of, the photos and videos on their devices.
“That is why our appeal is particularly aimed at parents to sensitize their children to this issue,” Krämer said.
The statement noted that the early use of smartphones by young children had opened up the possibility of them being exposed to such illegal content.
Earlier in the year, German authorities arrested four people after a raid on a dark-web club that had some 400,000 users.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
How about a bullet in the back of the head to these pedos. Only fair
And r b e real pedos that the real whistle blowers are trying to expose are being protected by these cover ups of arresting the least involved in the global child trafficking raping murdering harvesting adrenochrome racket And the public think they’re doing a good job
How many times has biden been to Germany?
Time to cripple the political opposition. No one of real consequence or power is ever exposed. If by accident they are, they are sheltered. Witness the UK ‘Royalty’ scandals.
Their buddy Jimmy Saville is such a savage.
I pray the Clinton’s and the queen are on list
Less than one year in prison? Why bother to even go after them. Their crimes are heinous and should be looking at execution. There’s no worse horror than committing sexual acts against children.