Thousands sought over child porn
Pastor Dale Morgan
*Thousands sought over child porn
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BBC- German prosecutors are investigating 12,000 suspected members of a
child sex abuse network on the internet - the biggest in the country's
history.
A senior public prosecutor said the suspects were accused of downloading
or possessing illegal images of children.
The investigation, which has been going on for several months, also
points to suspects in about 70 other countries.
An internet provider in Berlin is said to have helped by alerting the
inquiry to a huge amount of internet traffic.
"The material was analysed. Then we called for search warrants," said
Peter Vogt, head of the central office tackling child internet sex
abuse. He was speaking to German radio station Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
(MDR).
The suspects include 300 under investigation in the eastern German state
of Sachsen-Anhalt.