In what is certainly the most disgusting cases of techno misbehavior yet reported by this site, Federal authorities in the US have uncovered a child pornography ring. US Attorney General Gonzalez described the content, which included a man going down on an infant, children under the age of 7 being molested, and other abominable acts, as “the worst imaginable forms of child pornography”. The indictment names many defendants by screen name only, and apparently several suspects are still at large, though, the Justice Department will not name which ones at this point. Fortunately, the majority have been apprehended.
The group spanned a rather large geographic area, not surprising given the networked nature of the group, and several members are based outside of the US, in such places as the UK and Australia. There is no word yet on whether or not the US gov’t shared the information with these gov’ts so that they could be apprehended before evidence could be destroyed once news of their comrades being arrested arrived. The group used peer-to-peer program WinMX to exchange the pornography and to chat about its activities. Royal Raymond Weller, going by the screen name of “G.O.D. ” (not much of a power complex going on there, eh?), based out of Clarkesville, Tennessee, did the majority of the hosting, but apparently the footage was produced by various members of the group.
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