(CNN) -- Federal officials arrested more than 125 people Wednesday on charges of subscribing to a Web site that depicted children as young as infants engaged in sexual activities with adults.
"Today, we are taking steps against child pornography," U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie told reporters in Newark.
Fourteen of the suspects appeared Wednesday afternoon before a magistrate judge in Newark.
The arrests stem from Operation Emissary, which immigration and customs officials launched in New Jersey and extended to more than 21 other states.
It focused on a Web site that offered subscribers access to child porn videos and pictures, Christie and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special-Agent-in-Charge Kyle Hutchins said in a written statement.
The Web site warned customers that subscribing to the site was illegal and urged them to be discreet, the statement said.
Officials said the suspects, who include more than a dozen convicted sex offenders, subscribed to the Web site in late 2005 and early 2006.
More arrests were expected, and Christie warned anyone involved in Internet child porn to be wary.
"You are not anonymous," he said. "We can and we will find you."
Officials would neither identify nor say who operated the Web site.
Christie said such pornography sites typically rake in $2 million per month.
Among the suspects was a former counselor at a Bible camp and a longtime Boy Scout leader and middle-school sports coach, the officials said.
$2 million a month....boggles the mind there are so many sick bastards willing to pay for something like that.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
Perhaps people should spend less time worrying about tag, pogo balls and lawn darts and worry more about this kind of stuff.
Raymond S. Kraft wrote:The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
nothing is wrong with the world today, its always been there. Its just now being exposed. I blame the lack of stable families and hormones in the food product.
the number of pedophiles hasn't increased, it's just easier for them to find jerking material. the glory of the internet. at least they're easier to catch now though
I don't get it, they're going after people who BUY child pornography, and not necessarily the people who MADE it? Okay, to me, yeah, of course fucking around with some kid is way messed up, but is watching that really such a huge deal? I'd say going after the creators and those who profit from it is infinitely more important. If given a choice between being forced to watch some child porn or being forced to watch one of those middle-east beheading videos floating around on the internet, I'd take the child porn. ZOMG! ARREST ME!
I bet 95+ percent of people out there who watch shit like that aren't ever going to do it themselves anyways. Better to get their sick twisted fantasies out from watching videos that already exist than to go make it happen for themselves.
spazz wrote:Dude you just made it sound like your ok with possession of child porn. Are you fuckin insane or just that retarded.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
The only point he made that I agree with is that those who make it are worse than those that collect it.
Given that I want those who collect it locked up with the key thrown away, that gives you an idea of how dire a fate I would wish on those who make that filth.
KaiineTN wrote:I don't get it, they're going after people who BUY child pornography, and not necessarily the people who MADE it? Okay, to me, yeah, of course fucking around with some kid is way messed up, but is watching that really such a huge deal?
I seriously hope this is just a macabre attempt at getting a rise out of others.
Yeah... ugh, I mean if there wasn't a market for it, it wouldn't be made. i.e. The people that watch it are just as fucked up as the people that make it.
