Child *advertiser censored* Ring Busted

WASHINGTON - The federal government has won a major victory in the battle against online child *advertiser censored*.

It has broken up an international online chat room with thousands of pictures involving young children, and a new attempt to end online child *advertiser censored*.

Heinous and unthinkable—investigators say what they uncovered was one of the most demented crimes they have ever seen: child *advertiser censored* live and on demand over the Internet.

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declared, "The images many of these defendants sent around the world through peer-to-peer file-sharing programs and private instant messaging services are the worst imaginable forms of child *advertiser censored*."

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By Melissa Charbonneau
White House Correspondent


CBN.com – WASHINGTON - The same Internet that has revolutionized the way we communicate has done the same for the child *advertiser censored* industry - giving it far greater distribution of images than it has ever had before.

That also brings with it a new horror: sexually assaulting children as young as infants -- for money.

Jan LaRue is chief counsel of Concerned Women for America, one of many groups that have joined forces in the fight against child *advertiser censored*.

“Prior to the Internet, the child *advertiser censored* industry was basically a cottage industry that ran underground,” LaRue explained. “Because of the Internet, we now have the problem of commercial child *advertiser censored*, which has become a multi-billion dollar international industry.”

Ernie Allen of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children stated, “A single child *advertiser censored* Web site in Texas has 70,000 customers paying $29.95 a month to access the images of four, five and six-year-olds being raped and sexually assaulted.”

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is working with Congress, law enforcement, financial, and Internet industries to eradicate commercial child *advertiser censored* by 2008 - by cutting off its financial lifeline.

Michelle Collins heads the center's Exploited Children's unit. Collins said, “We're going to be working with these industry leaders to choke off the money supply to those who are profiting from the sexual abuse of children, and at the same time we're going to be working with the ISP to make sure that content is removed from the Internet so further proliferation cannot occur.”

They are also working with credit card companies to track down child *advertiser censored* Web sites and their customers. And most of the time, the customers are not who you would expect.

“We used to have the image of the dirty old man hiding out in the bushes behind the playground as the image of child *advertiser censored*,” LaRue commented, “and that's the furthest thing from the truth, because when we see arrests involving a child *advertiser censored* ring, you will find that there are many professional men involved in it, and it goes anywhere from doctors, lawyers, etc.”

Allen remarked, “Fifty percent of the perpetrators we've identified so far are the child's parents who are sexually abusing their own child, photographing them in the act, and selling or distributing the image via the Internet for profit.”

To catch pedophiles, anti-*advertiser censored* groups are depending on concerned parents to monitor children online, and on citizens to report child exploitation to the center's tipline.

“Thousands of individuals have been arrested as a result of the Cyber-tipline from members of the public who don't just turn the other cheek and not get involved, but from someone who's gonna turn around and make a report to the authorities so that something can be done in order to protect children,” Collins explained..

Reports of child exploitation have gone up from 24,000 to nearly 400,000 in the last five years. That's proof, experts say, that more resources are needed to combat this child *advertiser censored* epidemic.

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Rocky said:

I figured it out last night...

the probe just needed to be set to watch for massive link based traffic coming inbound and by checking the creation date on the weblink, it showed it was just created.

I dropped it onto one of the sites I suspected it was happening on...

The probe watches for where they went next and Bingo... tracked a moving site and tagged it... :woohoo:

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fran said:

Rocky:
I think I understand what you're saying. Good for you, GO GET 'EM!!

fran

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Rocky said:

I wanted to share with everyone how I pulled it off, I know there are many out there working on the same thing...

now you all know how it's possible...

this one is huge, could be bigger than Texas. They've moved 2 times since I tagged em... :behindbar

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mysteriew said:

I was just thinking about parents who let their kids go online without monitoring. I decided we need a visual image.
The internet is like a wide, fast moving river. Would you let them swim there alone? When you let a child surf the internet alone without supervision, it is like letting them into the river.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Online games have so far mainly revolved around the killing of fantasy monsters. The occasional fight with a Stormtrooper provides some variety.

Companies are now developing a handful of games -- though calling them that is a stretch -- designed to give players a very different option: making love, not war.

In "Naughty America: The Game," set to launch early this summer, players will assume the forms of alluring but cartoonish people who meet, flirt and have sex with other player characters.

Characters will have their own apartment, but the world will have also have "public sex zones" and themed rooms, said Tina Courtney, the game's producer.

"We've got the cowboy room, the make-your-own-*advertiser censored* room ... it doesn't just have to be 'Your place or mine?"' Courtney said.

Flirting and dating have been rife in online games like "Everquest" and "World of Warcraft" -- even leading to marriage between players -- despite a lack of romantic or sexual features in the games.

On the other hand, sex-oriented games like "Playboy: The Mansion" and "VirtuallyJenna" have been single-player games with no online component, and thus no interaction between players.

This new crop of adults-only games would combine the player-player interaction of the online games and the graphic sexuality of the single-player games.

Game designer Brenda Brathwaite, who has been in the industry for more than 20 years, sees the new games as a natural evolution of online life, noting that even in the very simple text-based adventure games of the 80s, virtual eyelashes were batted.

"If there were two people playing, eventually those people would start flirting," said Brathwaite, who is working on a book about sex in video games...


Of course, these games raise the possibility of sexual predators lurking in the chat rooms. Naughty America has plans to let users pay for a background check that scans their criminal record. Users who do so would have a special tag in their profiles, identifying them to others as someone who's been vetted.

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Rocky said:

yesterday on WB on an afterschool program, the child put a lock on the door, they showed the video camera on top of the computer.

when he was confronted by his dad, he told him he wanted privacy so he could get neikkid...

The Dad just joked about it saying he wished he could get neikkid too.

not one word to be careful...


WB I give you a vote for the wall of shame for that one...

thanks for sharing that important message with our kids :doh:

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anneoakley63 said:

I'm amazed at how long it's taken law enforcement to jump on this. When my daughter was on the internet, I always walked in unannounced "just to see what was going on". She now has a myspace account and I check it regularly (and she's 20!) I've even considered making up a profile as a 12 or 13 year old and trying to bust some of these sickos myself....but I don't know who I'd report it to. I just want to see these perverts put away and want to be involved in trying to stop it. It makes me sick to think that people get pleasure out of seeing kids abused!:behindbar

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