Dark web child abuse image site with 400,000 members taken down in global police sting

Well, shit.

That's enough internet for the day.

The thought of these children being abused for profit is heartbreaking. I hope they catch every one of those 400,000 “members.”

Find them. Execute them. Save the children.

So how do they get their underage 'models'? Do parents sell them for profit?

Maybe kidnapping? Horrific to think about

R4 I believe that’s the case with some of the victims, while others are kidnapped and, in some cases, murdered after.

Up until the late 1970’s porno stores in NYC would legally sell child pornography.

We really are a horrific species.

Why does it seems its always in Germany.

It wasn't me, I swear!

Fuck off, GGG

I don’t think I will ever be able to forget the recent case of Peter Scully, who both paid parents and kidnapped children to film them being tortured and raped. He eventually sold a video series titled “Daisy’s Destruction” through one of these dark web sites.

I fell down a rabbit hole of research on him and felt sick and depressed for days after.

Per wiki:

[quote] Peter Gerard Scully (born 13 January 1963) is an Australian man imprisoned for life in the Philippines after being convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape by sexual assault of underage girls.[2] He is pending trial for other crimes against children, including the production and dissemination of child pornography, torture, and the alleged murder of an 11-year-old girl.[timeframe?]

R4 a lot of these abusers don't go far to find victims, they assault family members.

Big news! The guy extrradited from Paraguay is Adolf Hitler. A hearty and hale centenarian!

Make a movie about a rogue ex police officer tracking them down and killing them on the spot.

That's a cathartic movie people want.

An ex player of the German national soccer team was just sentenced for not only having downloaded child pornography (10 year old girls) but also having sent it to three women he knew. He was “sentenced” to 10 months probation. The judge (a woman) said he “seemed to be really sorry.”

Sexual child abuse doesn’t get tough sentences in Germany, it’s pretty grotesque.

Are you fucking KIDDING, R16???

[quote] So how do they get their underage 'models'? Do parents sell them for profit?

This is the most stupid frau-like question I've seen so far on DL, and that says something. Are you aware of what percentage of the world population lives in abject poverty? Or, how many abandoned street children there are on the streets of big cities such as Manila or Rio? You sound like some QAnon loon talking about Wayfair armoires and Hollywood celebrities harvesting adrenochrome from Midwestern children. Human depravity is real and you can read about it in the link R12 posted. Poverty breeds all kinds of problems, since it devalues human life and dignity, among many other things.

R16: there was public outrage at over his light sentence.

Any psychologists know why they do this?

What's the best way to prevent it?

R19 I have no words. Sick bastard.

Why can’t they find & arrest all these people? I websurf one site & I get clickbait from it for the rest of my life. These pedos must learn how to use dark web from somewhere. Why can’t govts run dark web sites & ID them all? They’re leaving tracks *somewhere*

[quote] Police said the site had existed since at least June 2019 and "served the worldwide exchange of child pornography by platform members, whereby mainly recordings of abuse of boys were exchanged."

😢

[quote]The site was structured so to allow easy retrieval of images and video of "the most serious sexual abuse of young children," police said.

[quote]"Their reactions include resurrecting old communities, establishing new communities, and making strong efforts to organize and administer them."

How fucking creepy and infuriating.

[quote]In 2019 federal prosecutors in the U.S. filed multiple charges against a 23-year-old South Korean man accused of running what they call the world's "largest dark web child porn marketplace," with more than 200,000 unique videos.

Jesus.

I wonder if this has anything to do with Josh Duggar's arrest last week. Investigation of him began in November 2019.

[Quote] “Make a movie about a rogue ex police officer tracking them down and killing them on the spot. That's a cathartic movie people want.”

Yes, people who get a hard-on for killing, R15.

Good point, R24. The timing is conspicuous.

Still not understanding the psychology behind it. Is it like a form of sadistic torture?

R25 Or people who have been through it themselves and want payback and find it comforting there are good guys out there.

Nice catch r24

R27 what sort of monster can listen to a kid screaming in pain and continue to abuse them? No different that adults who beat their own kids to death. They're psychopaths.

R24 Hm… 🤔

Where's Robyn McCall when you need her?

[quote] Make a movie about a rogue ex police officer tracking them down and killing them on the spot.

I was going to say I want them named and shamed, but I would feel really sorry for their families, many of which would contain victims, they deserve some privacy.

I think they're both sociopaths and sadists, r30.

An aside: we usually think of sociopaths as lacking empathy, but Martha Nussbaum argues (somewhere) that effective torture actually requires empathy -- the capacity to "feel" what the tortured is feeling.

As an aside, I have some sadistic fantasies. I have only ever acted out on them once, with a willing partner, and that was enough. My fantasies aren't extreme, either. Spanking, verbal humiliation, that sort of thing. I am horrified by most BDSM porn. I think it's one thing to have sadistic fantasies; it's the acting upon them with unwilling partners that (I think) is caused by sociopathy.

I actually dislike that I get off on others' pain and humiliation -- no matter how "minor" it is in a BDSM context. It's one thing I truly wish I could change about myself.

Of course, I'm only talking about adults here. This story is a whole other level of horrific.

[quote][arrested three men accused of operating Boystown

Oh, no! Not that nice Father Flanagan!

[quote] I actually dislike that I get off on others' pain and humiliation -- no matter how "minor" it is in a BDSM context. It's one thing I truly wish I could change about myself.

Have you ever explored why you feel this way, R34, either on your own or in a therapeutic setting? Also, I think it’s brave of you to admit that.

Wish Liam Needing was real, cloned and set loose to dispose of these whack jobs, especially the ones abusive the children.

r36 I'm mentioned it to therapists but it's never something I've consciously worked on. I don't know the "why" of it either ...

It goes back to adolescence, though, and I've always felt guilty about it . But -- with that one exception -- it's remained a fantasy.

R24 and r29 I was thinking the same thing. The timing is close. You know he was dumb enough to put his info into Ashley Madison. Probably as dump to avoid pedo porn detection. His name was probably on the 400,000 name list.

Sadd

R38 Well, at least you are self-aware.

For once I'm glad I was still in prison when this site started up..

Thanks r41

I have a friend I’ve known since middle school and about 12 years ago her husband was arrested for having been looking at child porn online. He was in prison for a few years. They have a son who I think is around 14 now. She stayed with him and he told her he had “accidentally” stumbled across that shit. We were all like “oh sweetie no.” Can’t believe she stayed with him. I rarely ever speak with her anymore because I can’t believe she’s still married to the creep.

R44 Yeah, I would back away too.

A son of recently-deceased Watergate break-in "Plumber" G. Gordon Liddy was convicted in Federal court in San Diego a couple years ago of downloading and saving child porn on a computer and on flashdrives. Prepubescent girl children, apparently. He was, get this, a California Deputy Attorney General. And he got probation only, NO jail time.

R12, that monster’s Wiki page is one of the worst things I’ve ever read. Is there a word for beyond depraved?

Another thread for the QAnon loons to furiously whack their pussies over.

I bet they were all Democrats and woke Hollywood celebrities!!!!

r44 I dont know the specific stats, but most partners actually stay with them. Its bizarre and to me maybe suggests something about the woman's culpability. I mean in the above story about the footballer - he sent images to his girlfriend. Why?

That's some sick stuff! All those innocent children being put through God knows what! Jesus Christ! It's good that the perverts are getting busted and they'll be beat down in prison with a guard looking the other way. But what about the children? Can the children be tracked down somehow and saved?

This dark web and deep web stuff seems to me to be pervert orientated and should be rendered obsolete. Get rid of it. Be done with it. Kill it with fire.

Wow. Christoph Metzelder? And he sent the materials to women. Is this a typically light sentence or is it because he's former footballer.

R50, you don't know the stats, so you'll just make some up, huh?

Horrible! This, I think, is what happens to all those children throughout the world who simply "vanish" one day, never to be seen again and no dead bodies ever found.

R54, kids are more likely to be killed by their own family members than random child pornographers. Missing teens are usually runaways

r50 There was a family on Oprah one time where the father or step-father was abusing the young son. The mother knew, and instead of divorcing the guy or shooting his dick off, she slept in the kid's doorway in a sleeping bag so she'd wake up if dad tried to get into the bedroom to rape the kid. Of course he just stepped over her and kept abusing the boy.

My personal feeling is she is every bit as sick and guilty as the man was and deserved to rot in prison right along with him.

"My personal feeling is she is every bit as sick and guilty as the man was and deserved to rot in prison right along with him."

"We'll never stop blaming women for the shit men do!" vow the Datalounge MRA brigade

R12 just looks like a villain. I think it is a big red flag for any white person to move to the Philippines to conduct "online business". The Qanon doc on HBO, all the people that own 4 Chan and 8 Chan live in the Philippines and look shady as fuck. Do they have loose laws there?

R58 His story is on another level. If you are sensitive or easily triggered, I wouldn’t look to deeply into it. It was like a real-life horror movie.

*too

Heres what I dont understand...they can track the images,so why dont they delete them ? Or put a bug on them that will wipe out the downloaders hard drive ? Thats got to be more effective than spending billions trying (like drugs) to stop an unstoppable problem. Its horrifying and disheartening,but its been this way since man began.

R61 Are you saying there were pedophile cave paintings?

R9 Valid point. They now think Madeleine McCann was abducted by a German pedo.

What happened to that Republican staffer who was pro-life and got caught saying he liked watching baby porn? He got arrested and has disappeared from the news.

R19

He got a ten-month suspended sentence.

This is why the child porn industry thrives. Wealthy men get away with everything.

Ye gods, I've seen that documentary on Scully, R12. Scully is then obviously also a murderer. And he was SO arrogant, and imperious in the face of the questions posed to him. Unbelievably so.

Also out of Austrailia is "The Boy With The Henna Tattoo". A gay couple adopted a young boy from Russia, solely to sexually exploit him at home, and abroad. This is both immensely heartbreaking, and infuriating. The process of cracking the international case is somewhat fascinating though.

And know thay both men are now in prison: Truong for thirty years, and Newton for forty.

Australia seems to be a hotbed for child molesters and rapists... is it the asian connection?

The German criminal justice system is a fucking joke. I doubt a single person who was arrested will serve more than a month or two in prison. They’ll probably even receive an apology for the inconvenience of having their first name and last initial published in local newspapers!

Hopefully, they shared user’s info with their home governments. Any American who gets caught will be fucked.

This is Good News...But will this put a dent in the GAY STINGS by Delplorables at Walmarts?...They need their Youtube $$$ and TikTok "fame"....Its all sick. The pedos AND the self proclaimed "hunters" while innocent customers shopping get caught up in this. Why Walmart?...Invite them to YOUR house instead of risking the safety of shoppers--but these deplorables are too scared to do that...NBC stopped doing these predator stings because they got sued...

R65 What? That makes no sense. I can’t even.

[quote] Australia seems to be a hotbed for child molesters and rapists... is it the asian connection?

Cheap flights and easy accessibility of Southeast Asia. For Aussies, going to Thailand and Cambodia, even the Philippines, is as easy as a Mexico weekend getaway for most Americans.

"Up until the late 1970’s porno stores in NYC would legally sell child pornography."

What do you expect from a shithole city?

It's hard not to loathe men when you read these horror storues.

I wonder if they are going after the 400,000.

The 400,000 sounds like a TV show about hunting them down and exposing them one at a time.

R75 That would actually make for a good show. It would bring much needed awareness to this issue.

R65, most men who download child porn aren't wealthy. About 40% have no education beyond high school

[quote]I think it's one thing to have sadistic fantasies; it's the acting upon them with unwilling partners that (I think) is caused by sociopathy.

The willingness of the partners doesn't render the behavior non-sociopathic.

Possession of child porn was legal in Japan until 2014. And the country is not shithole backwater like Kentucky or Kansas or West Virginia.

Hope QAnon pedo cunts, ie that fucked up Milo skank, get dragged to prison after this operation, all of them. Fuck them.

Catholic Church is eerily silent kn thus.

Before the site was taken down, I hope the police ensured that a record of ALL the 400,000 pervs was made and start arresting them one by one. Actually, maybe they should release all of the names PUBLICLY.

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[quote]So how do they get their underage 'models'? Do parents sell them for profit?

There was a series in the NYT about this & in one of the stories, the girl's father drugged her & filmed himself & another guy having sex with her. So while she didn't remember it, she continues to be victimized by the images floating around out there. In another, story the agents who handle this talked about the brutality & cruelty of the images not only getting worse, but involving younger children (2 and under). I cannot imagine having the stomach for that job.

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Where Matt Gaetz?

I'm intrigued by the intense lust of the human psyche that completely overrides the known risk of these extreme fetishes. There's almost a subconscious cry out for help when many of these 400,000 clearly know the consequences of getting caught and jailed, yet are compelled by their addiction. It's a crazy trait we monkeys have developed.

Women who are actively involved in exploiting children are always presented as victims. There was doc a while back where a mother in Thailand was actively selling her kids to child molesters and defending her decision to do so. Of course she was presented as a victim of poverty, not the pimp she actually was.

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R87 will lash out at women in a thread dedicated to people who download child porn, 99% of whom are male

R89 is Karla Homolka.

Any arrests in USA? Asking for a friend.

R90 is The Zodiac Killer

Many Filipino families produce chilld pr0n professionally, employing their family member, and live stream it to perverts in Australia and the UK. There was an expose in the NY Times a while ago.

Oh please, there are laws to convict parents or any adult who aids in the selling/trafficking of children, stop acting like women get away with whatever part they play in it. The facts are that not only do men make up a significant portion of people trafficking children and distributing child porn, but they are the vast majority of people who consume it. Traffickers/pornographers wouldn't do it if people didn't ask or want it and as a consequence, children would be much safer.

R82 This was global.

R83 God, how horrific.

r89 If a woman knows a man is raping a child and does nothing and lets it continue she's culpable in abetting a crime. (A man who knows another man is raping a child and does nothing is also aiding and abetting a crime).

We are having a conversation, as people do, and in the course of that conservation women who stay with abusers is a topic. Some women in this world DO choose the abuser. Nobody is saying men are not culpable for their actions when they abuse children, and nobody has said at all that women abuse more than men. We are simply remarking that some women stay with abusers and also abuse.

By the way, I am not a man pushing MRA shit, I am a woman. You apparently are also a woman who either can't see nuances, is a moron, is willfully ignorant, or is just a complete cunt.

R97 can't read and missed the poster who claimed that women who stay with abusers are just as guilty as the men who abuse. Um, no they aren't, otherwise aiding and abetting would carry the same sentence. Cunt.

Oh wait, R97, you're the same "woman" (man with a short posting history aka troll) who made that ridiculous statement.

Most likely, R74. Better call your lawyer for advice...

Has that fugly fagtard Milo chimed in yet?

R97 don't try to point out facts to the fraus defending the actions of women who stay with child molesters or help them abuse children. They refuse to believe women can do any harm to anyone, even when presented with facts.

As for the shit stain defending women, two women helped Scully procure children to abuse.

Your typing looks feminine.

This thread is useless without photos.

^^^Hiding from the German police

R102, the only "frau" is you. How right-wing do you have to be to try to bash women in order to distract people from the fact that 99% of people who download child porn are men and 91% are white. But, sure, let's attack Filipino women or anybody but white men

You accuse people of "defending women" by pointing out statistics

R106 is so woke that he excuses female accomplices who help men rape children.

R107 is so stupid he doesn't understand that aiding and abetting a criminal is a crime and carries its own sentence

R107 is so right-wing that he uses the most heavily male crime as an excuse to bash women

Jesus.

R108 and R109 want to give the female accomplices of male child molesters their own day. Like Mother's Day but for female abusers.

R111 is a QAnon lunatic who ignores reality.

Here's who is responsible for downloading child porn on planet earth: middle and working class white men

Here's who is responsible in QAnon Looneyland: women, non-white people, "the elites" and woke politicians and Hollywood celebrities.

You guys go out of your way to accuse "woke" female celebrities like Hillary Clinton, Oprah, and Chrissy Teigen of buying child sex slaves....when 99% of the people who actually buy child sex slaves are men. But when white male conservatives are actually guilty of child sex abuse, you don't give a shit. Look at Matt Gaetz

Qanon Trump Loving Youtuber "Rising Josiah" will get to the bottom of this!!.....When YouTube says they purged QANON---do not believe it for a second.

R112 has a dozen kids buried in her basement and a DH waiting for his dinner.

R114 is a pizzagate kook

R115 is John Wayne Gacy

Y'all are crazy

[quote] Possession of child porn was legal in Japan until 2014. And the country is not shithole backwater like Kentucky or Kansas or West Virginia.

Japan is disgustingly lax about child sex abuse. People think of it as a crime-free country, but it's only crime free if you're a man. Violence and especially sexual violence against women and children is not seen as a crime but more of a social problem-- akin to drug use in the US. I lived there and I know the language, and I was disgusted by the things I saw.

This is not happening in only Germany, it is world-wide. You have to wonder how and why so few are prosecuted in other countries. How far up the social and economic ladder does it go?

What really blows my mind is how pervasive it is.

Our society creates these monsters. Most of us grow up being told that we are not good enough, that we are powerless. And some grow into adults who believe they need to steal other people's "power" in order to be "good enough". And that's when these insecure douchebags get a taste for acquiring and affirming their "power" by doing heinous crimes and get away with them. Secret, or Satanic, societies use pedophilia as a means to control their members to blackmail them into submission once they realize the cult is a sham.

R116 you are really grasping at straws aren't you?

R116 blames Oprah and Chrissy Teigen for child sex trafficking, meanwhile he molested all the kids in his neighborhood

[quote]Japan is disgustingly lax about child sex abuse.

We're disgustingly lax about it here in the U.S. too.

R67 In the case of Truong, his family were Vietnamese refugees, who landed in Austrailia. He was molested by a family member at a young age, and became involved with a man thirty or so years his senior when he moved to the U.S. in his twenties. This is also where he met Newton, his partner in crime.

So, where this case is concerned, I don't think the proximity of Asian nations played a part, except perhaps that Austrailia was the initial escape point for Truong's family.

Fix bayonets!