In the end, it was a group of Queensland police that brought the downfall of the network and cracked the case open for the FBI. Many of the images were sadomasochistic.īut what the men didn't know was that their group was about to be destroyed from within, because the world's police had finally caught up with their computer techniques. This paedophile network had more than 400,000 child abuse films and images on their computers. I'm honoured just to be part of it,' he said. 'My thanks to you and all the others that together make this the greatest group of pedos to ever gather in one place. Three girls, the first one being the youngest, around eight or nine years old,' another said.Īnother writes his assessment of the importance of the child sex network. 'I have a few five-year-old Taras that you do not have,' one said. Legal documents obtained by ABC1's Lateline program show just how at ease the men were as they messaged each other offering pictures.

'We have found ourselves now, as this case demonstrates, that we have groups as sophisticated as any other criminal organisation, that have the wherewithal, that have the means to literally pursue children and to exploit children at a level that has surprised us,' he said. Seasoned paedophiles, they believed their sophisticated knowledge of computer encryption had made them untouchable, and in that safe zone, they commissioned, made and traded images of the youngest children involved in the worst sex acts.įBI executive assistant director J Stephen Tidwell says the pornography ring used highly specialised techniques to hide from law enforcement authorities. 'Operation Achilles' was initiated by Queensland police task force Argos and it is alleged that a core administrator of the highly secret website was a 29-year-old Queensland public servant.įor years, a network of men scattered across the world had reached what they considered to be the pinnacle of success. Police agencies around the world are now sifting through 400,000 pieces of evidence after they cracked a major online child pornography network that used a sophisticated encryption code.

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