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337 arrested as feds take down the world's 'largest dark web child porn marketplace'

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Sad week for pedo guys

Federal prosecutors have filed multiple charges against a 23-year-old South Korean man accused of running what they call the world's "largest dark web child porn marketplace."

The now-shuttered English-language site, called "Welcome to Video," contained more than 200,000 unique videos or almost 8 terabytes of data showing sex acts involving children, toddlers and infants, according to the 18-page criminal indictment unsealed here Wednesday, and processed 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth more than $730,000.

According to prosecutors, the vast online store was run by Jong Woo Son, a South Korean citizen currently serving an 18-month prison sentence in his home country after his conviction on charges related to child pornography. The site operated from June 2015 until it was seized and shut down by U.S. authorities in March 2018.

At a press conference Wednesday morning, U.S. officials said 337 suspected users of the site had been arrested worldwide to date.

"You may try to hide behind technology," U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu said, " but we will find you and arrest you and prosecute you.
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Full article: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-...-world-s-largest-dark-web-child-porn-n1066511
 
WascallyWabbit

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God damn I can't imagine the amount of work and coordination it takes to arrest 337 people across the world. Good on them,
 

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Can they come to Panama and arrest a fucking pedophile lawmaker we have? Our authorities refuse to do anything to that fucking monster.
 
Phantom

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Sadly, it's a problem that will never go away, just like murder, thievery, etc. Best we can do is catch them red handed. At this point, does it mean it's part of human nature?
 
Chessguy1

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i remember reading a huge percentage of CP is just recycled content from other sites that just gets posted over and over but this article says half the videos on that site was unknown to authorities, crazy.
 
Slappy White

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I always amazes me the amount of scumbags out there in the world that are into this sort of shit. Sickening.
 
Landy828

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I'm pretty sure they missed one.

He has an orange tint.

Seriously though, great job. Keep destroying these people. I wonder if the whole Epstein thing has helped in catching anyone?
 

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Phantom said:
Sadly, it's a problem that will never go away, just like murder, thievery, etc. Best we can do is catch them red handed. At this point, does it mean it's part of human nature?
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I wouldn't even say it's just human nature. elephants have pedophiles in their species, for example. It's like some sort of defect that is inherent to social animals, I guess.

What's funny is elephants have the same kind of repulsion that humans have to pedophiles. Pedophile elephants are run out of their communities, and many times killed by the group. Not even literal animals tolerate pedophiles.
 
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Krejlooc said:
I wouldn't even say it's just human nature. elephants have pedophiles in their species, for example. It's like some sort of defect that is inherent to social animals, I guess.

What's funny is elephants have the same kind of repulsion that humans have to pedophiles. Pedophile elephants are run out of their communities, and many times killed by the group. Not even literal animals tolerate pedophiles.
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you have a source for that? Can't find anything.
 
Omegasquash

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Good. Prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

I hope each and every person is harshly sentenced.
 
Bleu

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I have a thought for the poor (heroic) officers that will now have to review every single frame of those 8TB in order to file, rank and organize the content in an attempt to id the victims and link it to other pre existing known content and victims and networks...
How do they manage to stay sane or not spiral into ptsd and depression ?
 
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Bleu said:
I have a thought for the poor (heroic) officers that will now have to review every single frame of those 8TB in order to file, rank and organize the content in an attempt to id the victims and link it to other pre existing known content and victims and networks...
How do they manage to stay sane or not spiral into ptsd and depression ?
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I don't think they do. I've heard it's a job that is very bad for your health and done for very short stints at a time.
 
Wamb0wneD

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"serving an 18-month prison sentence in his home country after his conviction on charges related to child pornography"

Wat.
 

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Good. I can't imagine being an investigator for shit like this though. You have to be traumatized by this work.
 

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Wamb0wneD said:
"serving an 18-month prison sentence in his home country after his conviction on charges related to child pornography"

Wat.
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a year and a half for being one of the world's largest providers of child porn

meanwhile I saw a documentary on someone serving a 55-year minimum sentence here in the USA for selling weed.

Fuck the world
 
ItRhymesWithDoom

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I think those charges are earlier charges, not the ones addressed in this investigation/ arrests. The way I read that is that he is ALREADY serving a sentence, with life presumably being his next one.
 

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8tb of...
I would start the punishment by the slow removal of all fingernail and toenails via red hot pliers and move on to using a splintery chopstick to shove the removed nails up their peehole.
That would be day 1 of a life sentence filled with such things for supporting this shit.
 

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Bleu said:
I have a thought for the poor (heroic) officers that will now have to review every single frame of those 8TB in order to file, rank and organize the content in an attempt to id the victims and link it to other pre existing known content and victims and networks...
How do they manage to stay sane or not spiral into ptsd and depression ?
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This is one area I'd hope facial recognition could help.
 
Bard

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Yo what the fuck is that about the asshole in charge of the site only getting 18 months? What in the fuck?!
 
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Krejlooc said:
a year and a half for being one of the world's largest providers of child porn
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I think it is from a previous ruling. In which case, it is worrying that he was able to be the administrator from the prison.

Edit: Wait, the store was shutdown in 2018! It is confusing...

According to prosecutors, the vast online store was run by Jong Woo Son, a South Korean citizen currently serving an 18-month prison sentence in his home country after his conviction on charges related to child pornography. The site operated from June 2015 until it was seized and shut down by U.S. authorities in March 2018.
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Edit²: Actually, what happened today is just the description of their past investigation.
 
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