50 children rescued as pedophilia site busted
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International police group Interpol said yesterday that nine people had been arrested in Thailand, Australia and the United States and 50 children had been rescued after investigators took down an online pedophilia ring.
More arrests were expected as police in nearly 60 countries pursue investigations stemming from an Interpol operation launched two years ago into a hidden dark-web site with 63,000 users worldwide.
Fifty children were rescued following the arrests. Police are trying to identify an additional 100 in images that had been shared on the internet.
Interpol said its Operation Blackwrist began after it found material that was traced back to a subscription-based site on the dark web, where people can use encrypted software to hide behind layers of secrecy.
Dark-web sites can鈥檛 be found through search engines and users need to have the specific URL address to land on a site.
Interpol enlisted help from national agencies worldwide, with the US Homeland Security Investigations department eventually tracking the site鈥檚 IP address, where new photos and videos were posted weekly.
The first arrests came in early 2018, when the site鈥檚 main administrator, Montri Salangam, was detained in Thailand and another administrator, Ruecha Tokputza, was captured in Australia. Salangam was sentenced in June last year to 146 years in prison by Thai courts, while an associate, a preschool teacher, got 36 years. Tokputza was handed a 40-year jail term at his trial in Australia last Friday.
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