LOS ANGELES (AFP) – USA authorities have helped break up an international online child pornography ring using a bulletin board called "Lost Boy" and charged some 20 people in five countries.
The Internet forum was used by some three dozen members trading thousands of "images and videos of child pornography depicting young boys in sexually explicit situations," some of which the members made themselves.
Sixteen of the suspects are in the United States, while the others are in France, Germany, Belgium and New Zealand, according to US justice authorities. The prosecutions were made possible by extensive cooperation between law enforcement agencies in several countries.
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