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Spanish Police Smash Child Porn Ring - 121 Arrested in Worldwide Probe

by Christina 123 | October 1, 2008 at 11:18 am

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SPANISH police have today held a hundred and twenty-one people for questioning after seizing computers and harddrives under child pornography laws. Some of the suspects are alleged to have used their own children in the offences.

Spanish police have arrested 121 people in what they described as the country's largest ever operation against internet child pornography.
Millions of images that show child sex abuse were seized in a series of nationwide raids, which uncovered a network spanning 75 countries.
Police say two of those held were using their own children to make pornography.
A further 96 people have been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.
Foreign assistance
The arrests, made over the past seven days, were part of a long-term operation which began in July last year with the help of Brazilian police.
Those detained include bank clerks, porters and airline pilots, and some are foreigners resident in Spain.
About 800 officers were involved in conducting 210 searches in 42 different provinces that "seized millions of archives of videos and photographs some of which show extremely harsh abuse of minors", police said.