Chatroom Danger: Flurry of Net paedophile cases hit Britain
Published: 15 Mar 2001 17:46 GMT
A flurry of British Net paedophile cases this year has exposed the Internet as an underground network of paedophile rings, where vulnerable children are lured into sexual meetings, and abused for the production and distribution of child pornography.
On 13 February, seven British men were sentenced for their participation in the world's largest Internet child pornography ring -- dubbed the "Wonderland Club". Three-quarters of a million indecent images of children were discovered on the defendants' home computers, depicting 1,263 children engaged in sexual acts with other children or adults.
British courts have since been inundated with horrific cases where men have used Internet chatrooms to initially make contact with children, and then entice them into an offline meeting.
ZDNet brings you a full roundup of the growing number of victims produced by the Internet.
Internet paedophile cases so far
FBI nets Scottish Web paedophile
Mon, 12 Mar FBI agent successfully lures paedophile into cyber-trap
Fourteen-year-old girl raped by Net paedophile
Fri, 02 Mar Another Net paedophile convicted
14 year sentence for Net paedophile
Mon, 26 Feb Ex-police officer found to be abusing children he claimed to be protecting
Oxford scholar used Net to lure schoolboy
Wed, 21 Feb Jail sentence awaits another Net paedophile
Wonderland paedophiles are sentenced
Tue, 13 Feb But not one member of the Internet child pornography ring received the maximum possible sentence of three years
Internet child pornographer gets 35 years
Fri, 19 Jan Virginia man caught posting home digital pictures of schoolgirl on Web
Massive paedophile operation leads to arrests
Wed, 17 Jan Nationwide operation leads to 13 arrests and 27 computers being seized
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