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January 09, 2020, 07:25:29 AM |
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I just saw this piece of news today, am wondering would this bring even more negativity to BTC? And what happen to the Bitcoins this scum had amassed?
23 yr old Korean who ran Darknet child porn site busted, leading to 337 arrests in 38 countries
Son Jong-woo, 23, is accused of running a Darknet website that accepted bitcoin and distributed over 1 million sexually explicit videos involving children
Authorities say they rescued at least 23 minor victims in the US, Britain and Spain who were being actively abused by the site’s users
Law enforcement officials said they had arrested hundreds of people worldwide after knocking out a South Korea-based dark web child pornography site that sold gruesome videos for digital cash.
Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea
on Wednesday described the network as one of the largest child pornography operations they had encountered to date.
Called Welcome To Video, the website relied on the bitcoin cryptocurrency to sell access to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse, authorities said, including footage of extremely young children being raped.
Its upload page specifically stated: “Do not upload adult porn.”
“Darknet sites that profit from the sexual exploitation of children are among the most vile and reprehensible forms of criminal behaviour,” US Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said.
Officials have rescued at least 23 underage victims in the US, Britain and Spain who were being actively abused by users of the site, the Justice Department said. Many children in the videos have not yet been identified.
The site’s vast library – nearly half of it consisting of images never seen before by law enforcement – is an illustration of what authorities say is an explosion of sexual abuse content online. In a statement, Britain’s National Crime Agency said officials were seeing “increases in severity, scale and complexity”.
Welcome To Video’s operator, a 23-year-old South Korean named Son Jong-woo, and 337 users in 12 different countries, have been charged so far, authorities said.
The child pornography website, which encouraged users to upload videos, included hundreds of thousands of illicit images. File photo: SCMPThe child pornography website, which encouraged users to upload videos, included hundreds of thousands of illicit images. File photo: SCMP
The child pornography website, which encouraged users to upload videos, included hundreds of thousands of illicit images. File photo: SCMP
Law enforcement officials said they had arrested hundreds of people worldwide after knocking out a South Korea-based dark web child pornography site that sold gruesome videos for digital cash.
Officials from the United States
, Britain
and South Korea
on Wednesday described the network as one of the largest child pornography operations they had encountered to date.
Called Welcome To Video, the website relied on the bitcoin cryptocurrency to sell access to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse, authorities said, including footage of extremely young children being raped.
Its upload page specifically stated: “Do not upload adult porn.”
“Darknet sites that profit from the sexual exploitation of children are among the most vile and reprehensible forms of criminal behaviour,” US Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said.
Officials have rescued at least 23 underage victims in the US, Britain and Spain who were being actively abused by users of the site, the Justice Department said. Many children in the videos have not yet been identified.
The site’s vast library – nearly half of it consisting of images never seen before by law enforcement – is an illustration of what authorities say is an explosion of sexual abuse content online. In a statement, Britain’s National Crime Agency said officials were seeing “increases in severity, scale and complexity”.
Welcome To Video’s operator, a 23-year-old South Korean named Son Jong-woo, and 337 users in 12 different countries, have been charged so far, authorities said.
Son, currently serving an 18-month sentence in South Korea, was also indicted on federal charges in Washington.
Several other people charged in the case have already been convicted and are serving prison sentences of up to 15 years, according to the US Justice Department.
Welcome To Video is one of the first websites to monetise child pornography using bitcoin, which allows users to hide their identities during financial transactions.
Users were able to redeem the digital currency in return for “points” that they could spend downloading videos or buying all-you-can watch “VIP” accounts. Points could also be earned by uploading fresh child pornography.
“These are the bottom feeders of the criminal world,” said Don Fort, chief of criminal investigation at the US Internal Revenue Service, which initiated the investigation.
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