This Pa*dophile MURDERS Kids On The Dark Web

Hundreds of child predators are arrested

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month as part of the Justice Department's takedown of the largest known child exploitation website. In

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individual, the only motivation was to inflict pain on another person and on the journey towards that we have been working on the story of a federal agent. A Border Patrol agent now facing federal charges Welcome to the Video was taken down after the raid and arrest of the administrator of the underground sites, 23-year-old South Korean national Jones Wu Sun, in an operation by officials in the US. In the US, the UK, South Korea and Germany, hundreds of suspects have been charged around the world more than 20 miners who were being abused by site users have been rescued officials say they have seized more than 250,000 astonishing videos with disturbing references to abuse of very young children and even young children at a press conference an official said was one of the first times we saw a penalty for child trafficking and cryptocurrency.

Hello, everyone. I'm Jesse Liu. I am the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Thank you all for being here for this very important announcement of important actions to protect children. sexual exploitation Today I am joined by key partners in the federal government's fight against those who exploit the most vulnerable among us: the Department of Justice announces that they just shut down the largest child pornography site on the

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web in October 2019. . .. that fact still rings true as I am recording this video in 2023. 337 pe

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s who produced content uploaded and downloaded from the said site were arrested and some jailed as a result of an operation carried out by the UK's national crime agency , the IRS and national security. the Korean National Police and the German Federal Criminal Police, although 337 arrests were made, at the height of the website's popularity there were approximately 1.3 million users and 360,000 videos were downloaded and, believe it or not, the words of the users themselves researchers if so.

If it hadn't been for blockchain, we wouldn't have even seen those 337 arrests. Could the investigation have gone differently if not for the blockchain, perhaps, but the tactic used in the months-long investigation relied heavily on it, so without the blockchain we would not have Have you seen those 337 arrests? There have been no cases even though the Department of Justice finally took down the largest child pornography site on the dog web in 2019. The origins of this case date back to 2008. July 24, 2008 Freedom hosting a specialized web The accommodation service appears in the tourist navigator. It offers a lot of hidden services only for those who can navigate the

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er side of the Internet.

In 2008, there were not many that could some notable services. Tallmail that allowed users to send and receive. send emails anonymously to email addresses on and off the Network hack BB tool, a hidden Internet forum that specializes in buying stolen credit cards, stealing ATMs, and hacking computer servers and accounts, and then there was the hidden wiki that contained a directory of links to other websites hidden within the tool. tools browser Freedom hosting would eventually host half of all the tourist sites that were available at the time. It began to attract many visitors for both right and wrong reasons;

For example, those who wanted to communicate secretly could do so, but a wide range of criminals had fun and the authorities could do nothing about it because, simply put, for a time they had no way of knowing anyone's true identity, Although for years the web hosting service remained in the shadows of the dark web, far from the majority of the general public, all that would change in October 2011. Dear citizens of the Internet, over the last decade, the Internet has become a part of every increasingly integral to our daily lives and has become the catalyst behind freedom of expression in the media and global communication.

Since its inception, the World Wide Web has become a prominent medium for people such as journalists and active people. However, great injustice lurks beneath the surface of an infestation of abominable animals that has been growing and spreading parasitically like cancer and the world knows it is wasting away. and has victimized innocent children and adults, the growing trade in child pornography has become a major problem, while government organizations have put a lot of effort into dismantling the people and websites dedicated to this repulsive trade, the providers of This content has been frustrated and its features have changed. to a much seedier place known as the dark theater.

Network dedicated solely to the iniquities that are marginalized by the society in which we strive. Unfortunately, a potentially benevolent resource has been corrupted by these sick and sadistic abominations of the world that we Anonymous have a maternal duty to fight against. against the social injustices of this world when we come to this virtual realm, we discuss it with the content that was provided and readily available to the perverted masses, many of us are talking about traumatic images of the material that these beta files hid in the dark. Anonymous pledged to defend the defenseless and fight for the fallen, we gathered an army called The Legion and armed ourselves with our Chris Hansen cannons and prepared for the great hunt that has become Operation Darknet, also known as To Catch the a predator, and discovered that Most people thought that pe

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s were using a site called Lolita City, we demanded that the main hosting provider known as Freedom hosting with its servers of such reprehensible materials, unfortunately, to the horror, the owner of Freedom Housing was the perpetrator of most of the pedophile content, we now know that this provider has over 100 gigabytes of content showing children being sexually exploited for money and sick attacks that only the underlying insects of this world could enjoy, while that no one was trying to identify the users and remove the hosting. provider of your unacceptable content, the darker it is a vast sea of ​​many providers, however we have every intention of making it uninhabitable so that these disgusting degenerates exist without fear of prosecution or death, this is our message, our Manifesto, they can demand from us every last word. we will never turn a deaf ear to the screens of innocent children you know who you are and we too are anonymous We are Legion we do not forgive we do not forget wait for us October 14, 2011 a member of the anonymous hacking The group had been browsing the hidden wiki when they noticed a section titled Hard Candy, a child pornography link directory, disgusted by what they had just witnessed, the hacker quickly worked his magic and removed all Hard Candy links.

The work was completed, well, not exactly, you see five minutes. Later, a hidden wiki administrator re-edited all the links and everything was business as usual. Upon further investigation, the hacker noticed that 95 of the links listed on the hidden wiki shared a fingerprint with freedom hosting and when the hacker redirected his efforts, he concluded that Freedom Hosting had been home to the most large amount of child pornography on the Internet, including Love Zone, a site where Richard Huckle dubbed Britain's worst pedophile was an avid user and the hacker would contact the unnamed owner of Freedom Hosting to issue a warning to remove the content from their servers, but they refused, so four hours later, a group of anonymous hackers gathered on 4 forums, such as 4chan, and began attacking DDOS.

Freedom hosting rendered the service unusable, however, within 24 hours of the attack. The owner of Freedom hosting was able to restore the Services via backup in response. Anonymous issued several more warnings, but the owner refused once again, so a new DDOS attack occurred even after new security measures were implemented. So Anonymous was about to shut down the largest child pornography server on the dark web, well, yes and no, you see. Anonymous issued a final statement stating that they managed to capture a total of 190 unique IPS, people trying to gain access to hard candy and Lolita City. But ultimately the sites continues to run in the future, it is also unclear if any arrests were made as a result of the operation, but it would be something that happened nine days earlier that really caught the media's attention regarding this operation and, therefore, the general public was informed.

At the height of the DDOS attacks that prevented access to over 40 different child pornography websites, the one that stood out from the rest was Lolita City, home to 100 gigabytes of child pornography images, the ages of the children ranged from newborn born to For teenagers as young as 17, the content was viewed thousands of times a day on October 18, 2011. Anonymous managed to hack Lolita City, meaning they had access to the site's 1,500 users, although their usernames were the only information that was leaked. The public Anonymous stated that they had identified many of the users and had asked authorities for more details;

However, once again, it is unclear if any arrests were made as a result of this. Some would label Anonymous' operation a success, others called it global. Child pornography ads seen in July 2013, just under two years later, despite being invitation-only, Freedom, hard candy hosting, Lolita City and others, had increased tenfold, Another 160 child exploitation websites would emerge during that same period, but just as the disgusting online communities were taking over, they would be temporarily shut down, all thanks to the FBI. I say temporarily because, sadly, ladies and gentlemen, even though it was the end of the road for Freedom hosting, most of the hosted sites would continue somewhere else, in obscurity. net, the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the extradition of a man accused of being the largest facilitator of child abuse images in the world.

Eric Owen Marquez, 33, who was dressed in Mount Joy Square in Dublin 1, is wanted by US authorities for conspiring to distribute and publicize images of child abuse. There was no suspension of sentences today, meaning he may be immediately extradited. The highest court in the land has affirmed the previous rulings of the high court and the court of appeals and Eric Owen Marcus has exhausted all legal avenues, he has no time left, there was no stay of today's Supreme Court ruling and he may be extradited to the US to face child abuse charges immediately 10 years after Eric's arrest and the details of how the FBI managed to track him down.

Still a mystery, the only reference we have to Eric's indictment in the US states that an investigation in 2013 found a key IP address linked to Freedom host evidence. After Eric's arrest, the FBI took over Freedom hosting and kept everything running briefly before shutting down the entire operation within it. In a short period of time, they secretly deployed a Javascript file to most of the sites hosted on Freedom Hosting. In simple terms, the script took advantage of a bug within the tools browser that bypassed the IP anonymization feature and therefore collected real-world IP addresses of users accessing child exploitation.

On the websites, this information was sent to a server controlled by the FBI and officials used the data to launch other investigations to track down other suspected pedophiles, although Eric stated that we do not give permission to upload any illegal files if you choose to do so. anyway. I am not responsible for your actions. I will not assist in any use of this server for illegal purposes. Sorry, I have to protect myself and I do not consent to the use of Freedom Hosting's server for any illegal activities if you perform illegal activities on the server. I will not go to jail for you if my identity is compromised and I am interrogated, cut off, and forced to cooperate in identifying you.

I will do it to guarantee my freedom. The FBI still holds him responsible, as did Anonymous two years earlier for hosting child exploitation websites. The latter went a step further by claiming that Eric himself had been the owner of Lolita City or that B had been somehow deeply connected to the site. Eric's response to the FBI was that he was simply an innocent party hosting a variety of different websites. In Doc Net, the evidence does not suggest that Eric would have owned Lolita City, but he was definitely not the innocent party who arrived.to be when God's officers raided his apartment in Dublin, Ireland, he ran to his computer hoping to shut it down even though his PC at the time had been password locked for those of you who don't know, when you shut down your PC, the information installed in the RAM is erased and Eric was fully aware of this, so he tried to turn it off. his PC, but the officers prevented him from doing so when the PC was forensically examined, the data was extracted from the RAM and although the PC was never accessed, they had more than enough evidence to link it to Freedom hosting, it was not just that although See, the data showed that Eric had been accessing a child pornography site he hosted on freedom hosting 1534 times, the site reports that it had categories such as jailbait, pre-teen toddlers, girls and boys, each category contained numerous child sexual abuse videos , another The website you saw, which was once again hosted by Freedom Hosting, had been visited 412 times according to Ram data from images pulled from the established site. 107 of them matched Eric's Ram files, one of them was that of a girl who was being abused.

Eric was eventually charged with conspiracy to advertise and distribute child pornography on the dark web by prosecutors in Maryland, United States of America, calling him the kingpin of child pornography after the FBI estimated that 8.4 million images had surfaced and videos through Freedom hosting. However, it will not be an easy job to obtain a final sentence because, as you know, he was residing in Ireland, it took six years until his extradition was finally granted and on February 6, 2020 he finally pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him. Eric Marquis was sentenced to 27 years in prison followed by LifeTime supervised release upon his release.

Well, the district court today imposed a sentence of 27 years followed by LifeTime supervised release, which is an important message to send not only to Eric Marquez, who as you know was the biggest enabler. of child pornography in the world, but also in terms of general deterrence, that ruling sends a powerful message to those who trade in child pornography or are contemplating trading in child pornography. Mr. Marquez essentially created a market for others to trade and promote child pornography and he was creating the demand and supply for a very dangerous and harmful trade for children around the world and it was important to obtain a ruling that not only tell those who were there that we will find them and hold them accountable for the trade and child pornography, but also to the victims to make sure they know that law enforcement here and abroad are committed to finding the criminals who exploit them and then, when we can, seek restitution for them, there were many who saw Anonymous temporarily take down Freedom hosting and Lolita City in real time. on 4chan, one of those who would later go by the nickname Looks wanted to help Anonymous in its fight against pedophilia, but found himself siding with those he originally set out to attack.

The great irony was that he was guided there by the very people who were trying to expose him as evil. In a short time I discovered numerous forums that existed on the dark web. In the early days of Lux, I got hooked on online pedophiles. He created a Persona of an American pediatrician who claimed to have had numerous sexual encounters with children as well. Like maintaining an ongoing sexual relationship with a specific six-year-old boy, the content he had consumed in his early days was too tame, if you can imagine, so he devised a plan to create his own website. where it was hardest.

Content could be posted with less moderation in early 2013. It appeared that he had created not just one site on the dark web, but several. His name had been heard in online pedophile groups. He was said to have been the go-to person for anything related to pedophiles. He had even reached the level where he was giving advice to users on his sites. Some of the advice included topics such as how to groom and sexually abuse young children, how to ensure there were no signs of sexual penetration, how to drug children so that they would be awake during the session. abuse, but he wouldn't remember it afterwards and how to kidnap, kill and dispose of the body of a child, he was everything, they became nightmares.

The decision would be made to host all websites under a single banner with some new additions as the Lux website began. to grow in popularity pedo Empire a one stop shop for all things pedophilia hosted by Yours Truly Freedom hosting most nights when I got home from work instead of sitting and watching TV I pulled out my laptop and got what worked on fart Empire, hopefully creating something that makes the community at least a little better. One of the most popular sites that was part of his Empire was Peter Wiki. At the height of its popularity, it had over 3 million page views and contained over 1,200 different articles.

In Empire required an invitation from a trusted member to gain access as a member, you would be allowed basic viewing privileges, but you would have to prove yourself to gain access to more premium areas, for example you would have to share images or movies that had not been shared. previously uploaded to the dark web and believe me, Lux had his way of examining such content elsewhere. If members wanted to remain active in a producer room, they would have to prove that they were actively abusing children on a weekly basis or else they would be expelled, the never-before-seen footage would have to include children holding a sign with a unique identifier such as the site name or a phrase created by looks.

In February 2013, some Empire users expressed their opinion that they wanted something. more extreme they wanted more depravity more violence and it looks good he delivered pain to the core a site dedicated to her called pornography she on call was the first of its kind on the dark web a forum dedicated to videos, images and discussion about rape , the torture and even murder of young children at the height of its popularity, garnered 400,000 views a day, although Lux claimed that she didn't necessarily like the content posted about her, she believed others did and that's why she presented in the The name of freedom of expression wounded to the core was divided into two different sections, one of those sections had been divided into different threads discussing different topics in July 2013. 23,000 posts were made on 2,192 different topics that included how-to guides on some of the most popular guides were: child porn for dummies created by the looks of little boys, child porn stars, how you like to make them scream, sex tourism and prostitution, where to find them, sexy little boys, and tips and guides on how to get what you want from kittens. of the most popular general topic threads were the following Three men and a baby young massacred tied up crying rape need ideas for a blackmailed 15 year old girl and the bestiality of all the eyes of the Empire was more active in her to the core and he did not just making guides for members to use no, no, they gave advice to some members on their main related topics, which makes you wonder if he was actually interested in the content that was being produced on the site.

One member wanted advice on filming abduction rape. and the murder of a five-year-old girl in Russia is fine, so do you have a plan? And this is not just a fantasy for you. I have many contacts willing to buy a video like this. It was never confirmed whether the Russian had moved on. the plan an American user wanted advice on how to produce and distribute the abuse of a seven-year-old girl who suffered from muscular dystrophy and was mute. I work in the medical field and if you show me a photo of her in her wheelchair, I bet she could. locate you in a week, it is too dangerous to distribute it since she is too recognizable, however, you should do it for your own gratification, at least you know that she cannot cry out for help, the user will then ask you if you can publish just the audio if you record audio. so that may reveal a lot, but it's a good thing that she can't talk.

I don't think it's going to limit it. As word of her spread to the bottom, many law enforcement agencies and hacker groups had attempted to gain access to her. to the site, but since it could only be accessed by reference, no one could enter; However, hackers managed to break into the core in December 2013, according to reports from Mexico, one issue that was noted was something the hackers discovered in a thread titled Child Sex and Prostitution. To summarize, a user from Mexico stated that human traffickers could deliver children as young as babies to any hotel or house in any city or state for the rental price of US$4,000 and if they wanted to buy them, it would cost them US$10,000.

Speaking from her own experience, she stated that she paid more than $30,000 to buy three children, two boys aged two and six and a four-year-old girl. She sexually abused them on a ranch she owned in Mexico and added that she had to pay more because all three of them died as a result of the sexual abuse she subjected them to. With the information now in hand, the hackers would contact Mexico's National Security Council and the Mexican federal police told them that children were potentially being trafficked in various parts of Mexico and that they should check with several orphanages to see if there were actually children missing after being adopted on December 9, 2013.

Governor Fausto Filejo Figuero announced that he, along with law enforcement agencies across Mexico had launched an investigation to dismantle an organized pedophile ring that had been operating from Morelia, a city in the state of Michoacán. This network was said to have been posting and exchanging photos of underage children about her to the core. The group had been exposed thanks to the work of hackers, what has never been confirmed is whether this group had actually been kidnapping children and selling them in September 2015. Mexican media reported that no arrests were made as a result of operation in early 2013, rumors began circulating on Dog Ner about a video titled The Destruction of Daisy, depending on who was telling the story it would vary in content, but a common theme was that it involved the torture of at least one girl and many affirmed that she would go. one step further and contained the murder of said ir with reports that some allegedly paid ten thousand dollars to receive a copy it seemed as if this movie The Destruction of Daisy, if it existed, was not going to be released soon come in look look a mission to see if A the video was real and B, if it was real, could he get a copy for himself to release it to the core?

He quickly discovered that Daisy's destruction was real and the sources who told him it was real pointed this out. He looks in the direction of an online user named Excitago who claimed that he had a copy. The excited girl would go on to explain that he was the owner of a company called No Limits Fun, a Hercule production company that focused primarily on young Asian girls. the user's excited girl would turn out to be a man named Peter Scully for those of you who are not familiar with Peter Scully back in 2011, he fled his home country Australia and headed to the Philippines after being involved in a fraud scheme real estate agent who fleeced more than $2.7 million from 20 different investors after spending time in the Philippines.

Peter would acquire two Filipino girlfriends, Kame and Albert, and together they would approach parents in impoverished neighborhoods with offers of education and food for their children. he would take the children under his protection, what the parents didn't know was that they were about to hand their children over to Monsters. The trio would give the children a false sense of security when they first arrived at a property rented by Peter for example, by offering them something to eat, but the mask would eventually slip and the children would be subjected to days, months and even years of torture and rape.

Some of these cases would be caught on camera and sold on Peter's child pornography site, No Limits. funny, the most infamous of scully's video collection, none other than Daisy's Destruction, a multi-pot video series that featured the rape and torture of three girls, eleven-year-old Cindy, 12-year-old Liza, and Daisy years, at only 18 months, only Liza and Daisy would go. survived, although Daisy continues to suffer life-changing injuries, both physically and mentally, which meant that Cindy would die at the hands of her abusers when investigators finally located her body, some three years after her murder, they found her in a shallow grave. under a housePeter Scully had been renting, she was forced to dig her own grave and then strangled to death.

This was all said to have been caught on camera according to authorities, however, it is unclear if the murder was a characteristic of Daisy. destruction and the series of videos went somewhat viral due to the nature of the content, it quickly landed in the hands of Dutch police, who determined that it was filmed in the Philippines, then turned over their evidence to local authorities and a task force was opened to To find the perpetrator, although they understood that a white Australian man was their main suspect, it was difficult to determine exactly who he was as part of their operation to eliminate suspects.

Investigators went door to door for months to see if the inside of people's homes matched what was said. In the destruction of the day, eventually law enforcement in the Philippines would not be able to locate the house they were searching for and all other leads they were investigating were dead ends; However, there would be a break in the case just as it was cooling down a bit. Of Peter's victims would come forward to the police after they recently escaped from the car, it is possible that they were let go after having felt sorry for them over the course of five days.

The two victims had been subjected to multiple rounds of rape and torture. They told the police that they had tried to escape in the early days, but were caught in the process and as punishment, Peter had the couple dig their own graves, who knew they could have been the next murder victims. Peter Scully was finally tracked down by law enforcement after being on the run for months. When he was captured, he was charged with 75 crimes that were split into two separate cases, the first covered Peter and Kami both faced one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape, bisexual assault of underage girls in 2018, the couple was ever found guilty.

All charges were brought against them, both were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Thanks, the second one covered Peter and Lysol. Both faced 69 charges of various crimes ranging from murder to the production and distribution of child pornography on the dark web in 2022, the power was found guilty of all charges brought against them. Peter received a 129-year prison sentence. Lyso 126. Looks would open negotiations with Peter Scully to purchase the full video of Daisy's destruction offering him 900 in Bitcoin which was quickly rejected. She could sell this for up to ten thousand dollars through private networks.

However, I could create more personalized videos for her to the bottom if we start a long-term business relationship, but as Lux's business model was not based on monetary profits but on content. For content negotiations failed, Lux simply couldn't afford to pay for the video, so the two went their separate ways. Finally, Lux managed to secure himself for brief excerpts of Daisy's destruction. A total of 12 minutes of footage was released from other sources. on her to the core immediately free for all members as revenge for the dealfalling through those NLF guys deserved me to leak Daisy's destruction they complained about Daisy's destruction now they are out in the open the looks had crossed the boundaries he felt untouchable to such an extent that he actually had this message for the authorities when they finally shut down Freedom hosting well, it seems as if this Empire has not yet fallen into the hands of any law enforcement agency that might be reading this.

You can't stop us and every time you try we will get bigger and bigger so thank you for the publicity and for bringing more pedophiles where you can. It won't be long until all the major CP sites are back up and running, and in the meantime I suggest you spend your newfound free time going out and seeing some kitties, even though the look had felt untouchable for a long time. For some reason, in June 2014, she got scared and felt that the authorities were closing in, so she made the decision to send an email to the FBI's cyber tip line offering details about her users.

My name is appearance and I don't just run. the largest set of online child pornography websites on tour, but I also have a knowledge about their users and their identities unmatched by anyone else. I am willing to give up control of my Empire, including the administrative details of all parties under the Empire and server details. Since he has access to my emails, I also have full control over the large pool of proven producers on any site. I am sure that access to this, let alone everything else I offer you, is a credit to the conditions I have.

The conditions will be detailed below, including fifty thousand dollars in Bitcoin and immunity in all jurisdictions. It's no surprise that the FBI didn't budge, they weren't interested in giving in to any of the demands, it's clear they're not taking my office seriously, it's not a game. These are real lives you are dealing with, it is now clear that if I want to solve this problem I have to do it myself. I will get rid of these people because no one else will since you do not want to be part of the solution I ask you to leave, after contact was made with the FBI, Lux announced to her inner circle that she was closing Pedo Empire when the word spread. voice.

Some reports say that psychopaths reacted by posting images of child abuse online in his honor on June 24, 2014. True to his word, it seems closed Peter Empire, as always, all empires eventually fall and today is the day it falls After years of running CP hidden services, today is the day I walk away, there are personal issues that my close friends have been aware of. That has forced me to make this decision. I don't like awkward goodbyes, so goodbye, greetings. If you try to search the Internet for a reason as to why Pedo Empire seems to abruptly close, you'll usually come up with two answers.

The first is a report that states that he. he closed it due to a quote of personal problems, as he said in his farewell notes, those personal problems were later revealed to be a suspected brain tumor, the other is that there is no answer, he says that for some reason he closed it, he is not going any further beyond that, but when you connect the dot, there is a potential answer and it's far from a brain tumor, it's actually connected to another Dark Net user called ski ski. Also known as Shannon McCool was a prolific pedophile and the owner of Love Zone, a child abuse site on the Dark Net. which we have discussed previously in this video had been home to over 50,000 members, including the likes of Richard Huckle.

If you wanted to become a member, you had to upload hardcore child exploitation material as a right of initiation before 2014. The site had overtaken Lolita City as the largest child abuse site on the docnet. If you've seen my video about Richard Huckle, then you'll know that Task Force Argos, a branch of the Queensland Police in Australia that fights online child abusers, brought the Love Zone along with Shannon and some top brass on the site in 2014. Their investigation into the Love Zone began as a result of an operation carried out by Canadian police in 2010. It did not initially involve Australian authorities, called the Spade Law Police Project.

In Toronto, Canada, they were investigating a man known as Brian Way, a 42-year-old man who had a production team in different countries in Eastern Europe. They had been filming what are called naturist videos of children, in other words, autistic films showing naked children between the ages of 5 and 5. 12 years there was a loophole, although as they were not sexual in nature the police couldn't really do anything about it. An investigation into Brian was opened in the early 2000s after police received complaints about his production team's films. were doing, but as you know, the police couldn't do anything about it, so charges were never filed.

The films would be sold worldwide through Brian's website, azerfilms.com. The business went on to make millions. Customers would use their credit. cards to make purchases At the height of its popularity, more than 2 million people visited the site in 2010, police investigated Brian once again, although he would not initially be specifically targeted. Police had begun investigating a person sharing extreme child pornography. images online and when that person was identified, he was none other than Brian Way. He didn't just share images of extreme child pornography online with other pedophiles. Penny soon discovered that some of his films would also not be classified as legal autistic films, but rather as child pornography in In May 2011, the police raided Brian's warehouse.

Up to 45 terabytes of child exploitation material that had been produced by films over almost a decade had been present to put that into perspective, it took dozens of police officers four full days, yes, that's 24 hours a day. to remove the contents of the warehouse Brian would be charged and later found guilty of 15 counts of possession of publishing and selling videos of naked prepubescent and pubescent children and was sentenced to 10 years in prison; however, that sentence would be reduced to only 7 years. and 10 months after he told the appeals judge that he was being abused in prison when the secret operation was announced to the public on November 14, 2013, it was clear that it was not just a Canadian operation but a global one, police Canadian managed to track We have identified 328 customers from around the world and, once identified, they passed the information on to their international counterparts.

Hello, everyone. I'd like to talk about the Spade project this morning in October 2010. Toronto Child Exploitation Branch Undercover Online Officers. The Police Service has contacted a man online who shares very graphic images of young children being sexually abused. Through investigation, officers were able to trace the internet connection to a man living in Toronto. The investigation revealed that this individual was executing an exploitation film. production and distribution company from an address within the city of Toronto, this company operated a website known as www.asofffilms.com where customers around the world could place orders to have films sent to them by mail or online.

Investigators believe many of these films were consistent with the Canadian penal code's definition of child pornography. At that time, the Toronto Police Service sought assistance from the United States Postal Inspection Service, as it appeared that many of the films were being exported to the United States. The Toronto Police Service and the United States Postal Inspection Service began a joint investigation on May 1, 2011 after a seven-month investigation that officers executed numerous search warrants at various locations in the city of Toronto . One of these search warrants was executed at the site of the alleged business located in the Toronto West End officials spent four days inside this business cataloging the thousands of movies, computers and other media located during their search, at which time they were They seized over 45 terabytes of business information and, to give you perspective, this equates to a stack of paper as tall as 1500 CN Towers.

On the same date a search warrant was also executed at the residence of the owner and operator of the business, Mr Brian Way, officers are alleged to have located hundreds of thousands of images and videos detailing horrific sexual acts against very young girls. children, some of the worst they have ever seen Brian Way, 42, has been charged with a total of 24 offences, including numerous child pornography offenses obtained from crimes and instruction of a criminal organisation. We believe this is the first time in Canada that someone has been accused of being part of a criminal organization in relation to child pornography.

Mr. Way's company is alleged to have had revenues in excess of $4 million during the years it was in operation. It is also alleged that Mr Way paid people to film children in Eastern European countries to produce some of the films he would sell online. These producers of child exploitation films that were sold exclusively through Azov Films have been condemned in their respective countries with the assistant of the technological text section of the Toronto police services. Agents were able to recreate the customer database used by Azov Films to distribute the material around the world. Child exploitation officers, with the help of members of Ontario's provincial strategy to protect children from online sexual abuse and exploitation, then spent months analyzing all the data.

The material ofSeas that determined who the clients were were then sent through the RCMP's National Child Exploitation Coordination Center and Interpol to more than 50 countries. This research was called Project Sword and its success to date has been extraordinary. The project as a whole has saved 386 children from sexuality. abuse around the world this alone is spectacular, plus as of this morning the number has increased. Sweden contacted us and informed us that they arrested seven more people for this project, so 348 people have been arrested worldwide as part of the investigation, including 50 in Ontario. Across the rest of Canada, 76 in the United States and 164 internationally, what concerned researchers was the number of people who had close contact with children.

The arrests included 40 school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, 32 people who volunteered with children, six law enforcement officers, nine. pastors or priests and three foster parents an example of one of the search warrants that were carried out in Canada the search warrant was executed at the residence of a retired school teacher had over 350,000 images and over 9,000 videos of child sexual abuse some of these images were of children he knew and he was also accused of sexually abusing a minor relative. We worked with several international law enforcement agencies during this project. Australian Federal Police who are here today.

Spanish National Police. Special investigations unit for the investigation of human trafficking. Mexico is also here today Queensland Police Service Task Force Argos South African Police Service Hong Kong Police Service Norwegian Police Service Garda Irish Police Service Greek National Police Force and the Royal Gibraltar Police The success of this joint project with the United States Postal Inspection Service along with all of our international partners and other agencies that you see here today confirm that when we work together, regardless of the borders that divide us, we can successfully track those who do not They not only take advantage of the most vulnerable but also benefit from it.

I would like to thank everyone involved and congratulate them for their hard work and commitment to this project. I would also like to thank cybertip.ca, who is with us today. Cybertip.ca is Canada's tip line for reporting online sexual exploitation of children. They received numerous tips about Mr. Way. website and forwarded them to us to help us detect his website. Thanks, this is where the Argos task force comes in when they obtained information that some Australians had been purchasing child exploitation films from Brian. The way they set out to make multiple arrests was one. arrest in particular, although that would open a Pandora's Box when Task Force Argos arrested this particular person who has been identified as Mr.

Smith and confiscated his computer, they noted that he encrypted certain parts of it, however, he committed the grateful mistake of abandoning your entire dark network. login details on an unencrypted note the login details would lead the police down a rabbit hole of the dark web and eventually lead them to the Love Zone, it was Unexplored Territory. Mr. Smith was a VIP member, meaning he had been uploading at least four gigabytes of hardcore tween content. child abuse content on the site every 30 days, he had to keep it up or they would take away his VIP status when the police entered the Love Zone and realized they only had a few weeks to stay on the site, so homework Of course, Argos had to approach a judge to get approval for something called a controlled operation, in other words, they were asking the judge for the go-ahead to be able to legally possess and distribute child exploitation material in order to remain in the website.

The big picture was to take out as many predators as possible, the judge would approve the operation, and long story short, it was successful. The operation involved the police uploading content to maintain their VIP status which meant they could keep an eye on everyone including the ski owner even though operation kova was on, it would be some good old fashioned detective work that would eventually be a ski mask, you see, the police noticed a pattern in the way the ski greeted users in the VIP section of the Love Zone, he used the phrase hires. and although the general consensus is that this phrase is used by women, the police knew that they were dealing with a man because Ski was actively producing new material about child abuse, he would be raping different children 7.

To act, they also knew that Ski was a Australian. Because he made the victims hold a piece of paper with the word Aussie written on it while they were raped, the police had to act quickly, so Argos team member Paul Griffith, a victim identification specialist, marked the phrase hiring on Google. 450,000 Resorts were returned, but to Paul's surprise, in the first few pages the phrase hiring had been used by a man on an Australian trucking forum. He was asking for advice on how to raise the suspension to visit the VW utility and had made the mistake of leaving his Burr license plate.

When police searched the license plate, it was registered to a man named Shannon McCool. The police were now sure enough that they had finally caught a ski, so they made their move and, for No Surprise, they caught the right man. Good morning everyone, David Waterford. Waterford, from sa families, and I will tell you about an alleged advocate who appeared in Adelaide Magna Strokes court on June 10 this year and remains in custody today. This offender worked within sa families in a young childcare role in the At the time of this offence, you will appreciate that the information we are able to provide you with is limited due to the ongoing police investigation being carried out into this serious offence. .

I remind everyone that there is a court suppression order in place, as well as the usual operation. of the Evidence Law that prohibits the publication of certain information in proceedings for sexual crimes on June 6 of this year investigation of special crimes Branch investigators received information about the dissemination of child exploitation material due to the seriousness of that information provided at this time by investigators searched domestic premises in the Adelaide metropolitan area on June 9 as a direct result of that search, investigators arrested a moral adult charged with seven counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with young children in his care.

He is also charged with possession of production. in the dissemination of child exploitation material at the time of entering the premises, the police were not aware of any contact crime between the alleged offender and the child victims. The focus of the investigation up to that point was related to the possession and dissemination of child exploitation material in the At the time of the arrest, the police were aware of alleged contact between the alleged offender and the children. This evidence led to seven counts of unlawful sexual intercourse when these seven counts were based on June 10. Investigators did not know the identities of the seven victims.

We were not aware of the location of the crimes nor did we know the time frame of that crime from that time. Sexual crime investigators have been working closely with our IT specialists in an attempt to identify the young victims. This analysis has been tireless and has involved the examination of more than 100,000 steel photographs and 600 video files containing child exploitation material. This part of the investigation is not complete and there is still a long way to go before it can be completed on Wednesday of last week with the help of the families. SA, the investigators identified seven victims.

The victim identification process has been slow and very tedious since it has involved comparing the images of the child victims contained in the child exploitation material with the documentary material provided to us by our families. SA, this process is has been made even more problematic as some of the child exploitation images were only partial images since the alleged offenders were arrested the focus of this investigation has been the identification of the victims and that is still important today to identify the victims so that appropriate medical advice and support can be provided. These victims, their parents or guardians, investigators and families are now in the process of informing the parents of the seven children about the circumstances of the alleged defenses and the identity of the alleged offender.

All support from police and child protective services. It will be provided to the parents and guardians of these children. This investigation has been a priority for police and will continue to be a priority. We still have a significant amount of computer analysis to perform with the clear goal of identifying all victims of this abuse. The investigation is being led by sapol and will continue until we have identified all possible crimes and the identity of other potential victims due to the complexity and enormity of the data that will be analyzed. This investigation may take many months before it is completed, but rest assured.

I am confident that our investigation will continue to focus on the victims. This research can best be described as horrible. It is horrifying for the young victims and their families and it is deeply disturbing for the police who must see these images. I now turn them over to David Shannon. McCool had been a government-approved social care worker caring for vulnerable children, some of whom had previously been sexually abused. Many complained that complaints had been made about him in the past regarding his inappropriate behavior toward children, but those complaints were ultimately swept under the rug for three years.

He then sexually abused seven children while caring for them as a government-approved social worker. One of the victims was a disabled young man and another, an 18-month-old child. They are all believed to be under 12 years old. Good evening Victims applauded in court as carer Shannon McCool's families were jailed for three decades for inflicting vile sexual abuse on already troubled children. McCool, who was also the kingpin of a global network of poor children, was described by the judges of global evil as him. He had never seen before that Shannon McCall needed protection from other inmates in jail, but the children he abused were denied that right under her care.

Instead, he stole their innocence in the most disgusting way and now he will pay with the next 35 years of his life. life I have no remorse for him I hope he gets what he deserves McCall cried as Judge Paul Rice described in harrowing detail the repulsive crimes inflicted on seven children the former family's essay Cara was trusted to care for them in a government - a residential facility run by him, but when he was given one of the harshest sentences in the state, the courtroom erupted in applause, it was partly over, it was over, and now I can deal with our family trauma.

McCool's victims were as young as 18 months old, some were disabled. everyone was vulnerable it's disgusting it's absolutely disgusting McCool uploaded hundreds of thousands of videos and images to his depraved website which fed an international market of over a thousand pedophiles while the website's CEO McCool boasted and encouraged others to post their own material of signatures. It was horrible Listen, I can't understand how anyone could act that way nor could I judge Rice, in fact he struggled with the severity of McCool's insidious behavior saying no case has come close to yours it's a global evil far beyond me judicial experience, some people may describe your crimes as sick, but I prefer evil and depravity.

You have no moral compass. You've been emotional the whole time, but this time it was just yes? Heck, McCool, 33, will be 61 before he has any chance of parole. The judge doubts that the pedophile will ever be able to. change their habits, what is clear is that the impact on these children is not in the past, it is immediate, continuous and develops as they grow and I hope my grandson never sees him again with Ski now in police custody. It was time for Task Force Argos to take over the Love Zone and take down other members. One of those looks, no less than two weeks after Shannon McCool was arrested, the looks would continue to announce that she was closing her fart empire somewhere in the world.

Line Do Looks and Ski had a secret code that would take everything offline if they suspected the police had taken over their accounts, for example if Look said a certain phrase to Ski, Ski would have to give a certain response ormaybe Looks just had a hunch. that something was wrong and he decided to delete all traces of his online activity, it wouldn't be too difficult to suggest that either thing was true because reports say that many higher ropes within the Love Zone noticed that the ski now operated by law enforcement had begun to speak. and act differently, none of that would matter because what the eyes didn't realize was that even though he had ended his pedo empire, the police had connected him to his home address, let them know about the operation and how the authorities managed to make the connection.

All we know is that he was discovered after they had taken over the Love Zone. On August 26, 2014, police were about to attack a house in Melbourne, Australia, they were about to come face to face with the most hated man on the dark web according to the police. Understanding that the property was owned by a working-class white man in his 50s, a mechanic who lived there with his wife, son and daughter, they thought for sure that was the case, but when the police started vandalizing the house in search for the computer that housed one. of the most disgusting sites on the dog net, they knew instantly that it wasn't the father because he had no idea how to operate a computer, their attention was soon drawn to the sun Matthew David Graham, 22 years old Matthew David Graham, a student of nanotechnology with No social life person liked to spend their days inside playing games like World of Warcraft, which was their form of social interaction in their life away from a computer screen.

He seemed like an average college student, however, as you know, he was hiding a secret dog in the At the age of 18, he began exploring child exploitation websites on the dark web. In the span of about three years, he created the most horrific child abuse website in his parents' home. They didn't realize it when police raided Matthew's home that August morning in 2014. Detectives asked her to unlock her laptop and his PC, but he refused. However, he gave them his phone and password. An initial search of the phone turned up nothing more than three images related to the wounded core that would emerge after detectives dove deep into the device's cash.

As a result of this finding, Matthew would initially be arrested and charged with possession of child abuse in Ontario and failure to hand over his passwords, no further charges were added at the time, although because the police had no evidence all they had was the track that led to the address. Matthew's PC and laptop would be sent to Europol in Germany and the FBI in the United States to see if they could access them. They already knew that Matthew Graham was attractive, but they needed the data from the devices since they had stored the evidence they needed for a While the two fought, but eventually the FBI would find their way inside and there was the evidence they were looking for.

Australian detectives would go on to give Matthew two options upon discovering the findings: plead guilty in Australia and hand over the access code to the other. Device or B faces possible extradition to the United States, where he had been facing separate charges. He settled for the first. I guess I wanted to be a part of something and that's why I invented it. Sexualization was never something that interested me, it was the power within. pedophile community On July 30, 2015, just under a year after his arrest, Matthew was charged with 88 offenses covering a wide range of offences, but by the time he was sentenced in March 2016, he had only been sentenced for 13 of them. the original 88.

After reaching a plea deal, those 13 charges included crimes such as harboring and distributing child exploitation material, encouraging the kidnapping, rape and murder of the five-year-old Russian girl, and encouraging the rape of the seven-year-old disabled girl. years. in the United States during Matthew's sentencing, at the hearing, the judge presiding over the case was very hesitant to see some of the material housed in it to the core, but the prosecution recommended that the judge needed to see at least small clips of the destruction of Daisy without audio to get an idea of ​​the horrible content Matthew had allowed on the site that way it would help the judge what sentence to hand down the judge agreed how any human can see that impassively the baby was being tortured, real physical torture, an extremely trusting vulnerable child who starts smiling while wearing a diaper and ends with a physical breakdown of crying.

I have seen some shocking things during my career journey and I have never seen anything like it. After the hearing, the judge was said to have appeared pale and disoriented in the On 17 March 2016, Matthew David Graham received a prison sentence of 15 and a half years with a minimum sentence of 10 years. He was considered the worst administrator of some of the worst websites in the world at the time, so we knew who the user was. I just had to make the connection that lux was Matthew Graham when I first saw him the day we delivered the order.

I was surprised by his confidence that he was quite calm in that environment in his mind. I can't imagine how that's been making you think, "they got me," because obviously there's a bit of bluffing, what we have, what we don't have, not all of our cards are played at that moment, the level and type of content that I was dealing with. He was considered the worst in the world by the FBI and Europol. It was tough, painful material, so the torture and abuse of babies mainly until, I think, 12. When he came to the interview, he was surprised at how honest and open he was to talk about it. level of knowledge that he didn't flinch, he just walked away, he's telling what he was talking about, it was amazing to think that, you know, the FBI and Europola were chasing Lux, who was he?

Where is she? Behold, she is. here and he is a 21 year old Lux ​​who somehow stands out and is in some ways just like the other Dark Net pedophiles I talked to, a lot of people I know ask why someone like that would talk to a member of the media .And I think one of the ways he's like other people in this community is that he needs someone to talk to. He is still a human being and this is a secret they keep and they saw me as someone they could. Talk safely to um and then you might get that feeling from him the same way you might get that feeling from the other pedophiles on the dark web.

Uh, he was different, I think he was singularly hated by other pedophiles. um, he hadn't met him. many other people who even like entire communities of other pedophiles really despised Lux ​​was hated in the pedophile community because he promoted the wounded core, which is a genre within a genre, right, it's a genre of child pornography in which the idea is that the child is being hurt, beaten and abused beyond the normal level of child pornography abuse, um, and that's something that a not insignificant amount of people enjoy, but that even more other pedophiles hate, it's funny call them that, but mainstream pedophiles basically think this is abhorrent because as part of the justification for their actions they see themselves as part of childish love, they see themselves doing what is right for the child, what the kid wants and while that's a uh it requires its own twisted sense of justification um it's another level of it's another spin to say that the kid wants to be hit um, you know, there's no twist, people who enjoy the hurt core in They are mostly amused by the fact that the children are not enjoying it and that is really abhorrent even to most pedophiles.

First of all, I completely accept this offer. It may not be for everyone, so feel free to say no, but my offer is this. I would be interested in requesting photographs. of yourself, whether topless or naked, in exchange for this I would be willing to pay between 300 and 800 pounds, it's a bit of background, I mean, why is this pervert asking me for these photos? I certainly wouldn't go so far as to call I am an artist, but I love drawing primarily in charcoal and the images I would ask you to produce would be the type of things that inspire me the most.

No one but me would ever see them. Let me know if this is something of interest to you. Thank you. you for taking your time to read this was an emo sent by a person called Liz to several people listing services like babysitting and dog walking on Gumtree, a classifieds website, the people listed were looking to earn some cash. Most of the time they had been

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in their teens, so when they were offered quick money to help someone with a piece of art, they accepted the offer, what they didn't know is that once those images were sent, they would be sucked into a scheme. of blackmail if they did not continue sending images that became more degrading as time went by.

Liz would threaten to leak the material they had to people who knew the victim, whoever this Liz character was, she did due diligence on her. In order to maintain the blackmail plan after attacking literally dozens of children during 2012 and 2013, it was no surprise that the police were fully aware of who Liz was, but had no way of discovering Liz's true identity because Liz had used different media. to hide any clues leading to them - in other words, they were a ghost - however, it wouldn't be long before detectives in the UK connected Liz to a dark web site with her name down to the core. , let's go back earlier in the In the video we were talking about her to the bottom and some of the popular threads in it, one of them was titled "I need ideas for a blackmailed 15 year old." The FBI would realize that the person behind the string in the garden had been from the UK, so they alerted their UK counterparts, the National Crime Agency, to tell them about the discovery;

Sometime after this notification, a 15-year-old girl who was a victim of Liz's Gumtree blackmail scheme came forward to the police after cross-referencing the database. It became clear to detectives that the girl who had just introduced herself was the 15-year-old girl referred to in the thread about her. To the bottom, the National Crime Agency had made the connection in the garden and Liz with the same person she was searching for. Well, not exactly, she basically she had a needle in Haystack. There are 32 million meals in the UK for over 18s. So I had to narrow that down to one.

It took four years for the National Crime Agency to work collaboratively with GCHQ, the UK spy agency. the FBI, the US Department of Homeland Security, the Australian Federal Police, the New Zealand Police and the Israel Police to finally find out who it was in the garden, they were the number one target during that four year period. Liz, under different names, had continued to blackmail her. scheme on the surface web and when they received images and videos typically of child pornography from a victim, they would post that content about her to the core in Gordon had posted that they often earned the title of child rapist, which meant that at the very least , published 250 separate posts of child-related hardcore images and videos before the site closed in 2014.

After that, its end is believed to have continued elsewhere on the dark web, this time under the aliases Evil Mind and 666 Devil , although reports do not indicate which websites they posted on. Most likely due to ongoing police investigations, it is believed that up to 300 people were approached in the garden as part of their blackmail plan, hundreds would become full victims, but in 2017 it would all come to an end in March That year, police had managed to trace the evil mind accounts in Garden and Devil 666 to an address in Birmingham, England, however, detectives weren't quite sure how strong the lead was because the person of interest didn't fit the profile of someone who normally posted that kind of content on On the dark web they had to go undercover, that's Dr.

Matthew, a 29-year-old professor at the University of Birmingham, being monitored by the National Anti-Covid Agency. Crime. He was the main suspect behind the.net accounts, but police say if they took a look at his life, you wouldn't know it. I hadn't suspected that to be the case, I didn't necessarily fit the profile born in Nutsfield Cheshire Matthew Falder had grown up in a £700,000 home with a stable family life there were no reports of any abuse he attended a private school during his childhood his Parents rubbed shoulders with influencers without it sounding like a cliché. Matthew had the opportunity to do whatever he wanted because financial freedom was there.

He decided to settle for his education and excelled in school. He appears here in a school letter. stating that out of 75,000 students nationwide, he was one of four percent of the event to win gold in a math competition as part ofovercoming that challenge, granted him a place in the Olympic mathematics tests that did not appear in the school's charter simply once, ladies and gentlemen, rather twice, on the next page he was photographed with six of the students who had completed interviews at the university of their choice and all had been accepted. Matthew chose to study Natural Sciences at the illustrious University of Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master's degree.

He was one of the best students he had ever supervised. His work had an international impact. Matthew reveled in the social side of college. He was looking to impress his colleagues. He wasn't going to be that person who stayed inside all day studying. He wanted. to be the life of the party, what many did not know was that behind the smiles and laughter a dark secret was hidden: Matthew Folder had already been installing hidden cameras in public access bathrooms in 2007 and his parents secretly recorded at home to women I knew and didn't know. In total, 27 videos were taken of eight victims over a period of a few years.

This material would initially be prior to personal use, but soon found its way onto the dark web around 2009, when Matthew logged on. With like-minded people, not much is known about his early days on the dark web, other than that he would trade those images in exchange for other depraved material. Nearly a decade on the police had connected him to online accounts that posted some of the most horrific child abuse. When that connection was finally made in 2017, the National Crime Agency set up a two-month surveillance operation and by June of that year they had more than enough evidence to suggest he had been running Dog Net accounts, so? what was that?

I don't know what crimes I arrested him on suspicion of being involved in, yes they were blackmail, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, possessing indecent images of children, something like the Rapture from Hell, simply distributing indecent images children's. and causing gbh injuries to a person, are there other email accounts you are using? I think there are no comments, there are more email accounts, what are the passwords? Did you do that one without comment? Have you seen photos of your black male victims? the parents come from the victim the grandparents the workplace the schools the images he provided to you have you shared them with anyone else have you distributed those images to any similar man to make videos on the forums previously without comments or with anyone else Did you get any sexual validation from that or was it a matter of power and control, Matthew, or was it humiliation?

No, come on, keep saying and then you know I'm 100 anonymous, how is that? No comments initially. Matthew gave a no comment interview to police, but on the third day of his arrest in a prepared statement he continued to say that he owned the evil mind account, but that admission also meant that he owned in the garden and 666 devil Matthew. Falder would be charged with 188 separate offenses for offenses ranging from encouraging the rape of a minor to possessing a pedophile manual that instructed pedophiles on how to carry out child sexual abuse and remain undetected by police. He would later plead guilty. to 137 of the 188 charges against him, the rest should be on his record by February 19, 2018.

Matthew Folder would receive a 32-year prison sentence, but believe it or not, just eight months later, that sentence was reduced to 25. years after an appeal hearing, he must serve two-thirds of that sentence before being eligible for parole as if people didn't understand that it wasn't my fault how it all started and that I didn't want to do it, but I felt like no one I would understand because there was no one there holding a knife and telling me that you would do this even though it felt that way, so I didn't tell anyone that I was ashamed of it.

I don't talk to my family, I felt like they didn't understand and didn't understand what had happened to me. I have my day in court and I want everyone else to have that day. I want you to tell someone, tell a friend. Tell your parents. Tell someone at work and notify the police because even if it takes a long time, they can find these people and they will be punished, so it is very difficult to understand a crime whose motive does not include sexual passion and money. or revenge or hatred when the only motivation of an individual is simply to cause pain to another, that is quite difficult to understand, most crimes, there, you can see the reason why you are going, if you do not accept the motive, you can, you can see where. comes from, but in this individual the only motivation was to inflict pain on another and the journey towards that, so it was about complete and total power and control over another person.

When we identified Matthew Folder, there was a real adrenaline rush to the issue. is that we have to make sure that all I have to make sure that at the moment that I decide to take action I'm not putting anyone at risk, so the point that you identify is that someone at risk currently has enough to do that intervention and I have enough that when I do that intervention I am going to stop their ability to commit more crimes some of the people affected by Dr. Fowler's behavior that impact for some has been lifelong and for many of them, um we have been able offering them options for help and support to start moving forward with, hopefully, a different chapter in their lives and being able to safeguard them through the work that the organization has done as part of the investigation, it has been really rewarding and really key, we didn't know who was or where it was, in terms of working for a fairly long period of time, knowing that there was probably harm that was being done to people that we were unable to intervene and stop and protect.

There were times when that was really challenging, some folders thought they wouldn't get caught and I think actually he was probably the type of guy who would tell people he wouldn't get caught in the anonymous service and then live a life completely lifeless. different in his everyday life, um, ultimately that was not the case, ultimately we, with our international partners, captured him and with the help of the victims imprisoned him, so for us this has been a relentless search to catch him . Dr. Matthew Falder, um, but what saddened me is his relentless pursuit of victims and would stop at nothing to exploit them and make them feel sad or humiliated or unhappy and he really didn't care in any way how that ultimately manifested itself. .

It has devastated some people's lives and I am very proud of our team and also the victims for being able to stand up and stop it, so for me the best thing about this investigation is catching it and knowing that it was stopped because, like when I sat in court , behind some of the victims, I felt really proud of them and felt that the journey that they had taken, we were actually able to help them finish it in terms of the lowest moments, there have been moments where I have been driving. at home thinking: is this going to end?

How are we going to deal with this? and ultimately you know as a human being that this can be really complicated because you can see the abuse that is happening and sometimes you feel powerless to stop it, ultimately the climax is the end point when it stopped, so Matthew Folder is not the only one exploiting harassment and blackmailing people, there are many. There are other people who are doing that, however, Matthew Folder is part of a very small group of people who took it to the extreme, where it was absolute exploitation, absolute pain, and really the degradation of humans within society, as well. which fortunately is quite rare.

But there are others and our job is to catch them. Anonymous networks by their very definition in nature are actually very complicated because what you effectively get is a place where people can go, they can hide and they can't be found, so, of course. What that means: you have to be innovative, you have to use new and different tactics, and ultimately you have to think about a very difficult problem. I'm really really proud of the staff and I think when you sometimes sit back and look at them working so many hours and missing those appointments at home and sometimes having to deal with really depraved and disgusting material.

I just think they're brilliant and the sacrifices they've made for justice are really impressive. Scale of Crime The most important things you must deal with as a prosecutor is making sure that the court receives an accurate picture of the person's level of crime and the scale of crime that was important to represent in the charges, no matter how many the charges may be. crimes. nature of the different types of crimes that Mr. Folder had committed and it was important to represent each of the victims who had been identified and for whom there was sufficient evidence. IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent Chris Jangrowski and Tigran Gambaran sit at the Bangkok airport, ready for the souvenir boom.

Jet returned to Washington DC after the successful arrest of Alexandra Casas, owner of Alpha Bay, a darknet drug market that had grown 10 times larger than its predecessor, Silk Road, although the successful Chris and Tigran had been sidelined. by their police counterparts. at the FBI in regards to the arrest itself, an anticlimactic ending to a case they had been working tirelessly for years at the time, in fact, they had not even been invited to watch a live stream of the arrest, they were just They found out when the job was done, their flights were delayed that summer night in July 2017.

So, to pass the time, they sat down together to figure out what their next case should be in hopes of a Trace blockchain software by the name of chain analysis software. He was responsible for helping in many cases involving the Dark Net. The adult online gambling site was a lead they wanted to follow, but that would have been a small headline hidden among thousands of news articles. They needed something bigger. The Darknet drug markets practically ceased to exist for months after the takedown of Alpha Bay, how are they going to match something of that magnitude? Welcome to the video.

I've been to the guys from the National Crime Agency in London and they showed me a couple of their open cases. I think you might want to take a look. Check this out, they recently arrested a guy, I think his name was Matthew, anyway, they had caught him posting extreme child exploitation material on the internet, they managed to get into his computer and found a website called Welcome to the Video. According to the National Crime Agency, it is the largest child exploitation website they have ever found, hosting 1.3 million users. Before you ask me what this would have to do with the IRS, would you believe that users are using Bitcoin to pay?

In the material, we ran a Bitcoin address that was part of Welcome to the Financial Network Videos through a chain analysis and there were right in front of us the addresses of customers who are paying to get access to the material on the site I honestly can't. I think many people, not only the buyers but also the site administrator, have done nothing to hide their crypto Trail. Some users literally bought Bitcoin on an exchange and sent it directly to the welcome video. We have found gold here. Look, why not? The IRS takes the case, it will make headlines around the world and the trail was there to follow.

Jane's analysis has taken the first step: the site's cryptocurrency is being cashed out in South Korea, so I'd stop there if you're going. To take the case with the groundbreaking case now in their hands, Chris and Tigran formed a team to investigate Welcome to the Video alongside law enforcement agencies around the world. The IRS was going to treat this as a financial investigation rather than child exploitation. One, even if that were the case, they would still have to force themselves to look at the side material in order to accept what they were facing. Beyond the greeting page, the site displayed a vast, seemingly endless collection of video titles and thumbnails. a roundup in squares of four still images per video apparently chosen automatically from the files, frames, those small images were a catalog of horrors seen after the scene of children being sexually abused and raped below the search field listed popular keywords that users had entered, the most popular was an abbreviation of one year the second most popular was the abbreviation of two years welcome to the video hosted 250,000 child abuse videos the site was based on a points system points were used to obtain access to content you could get points by purchasing them with Bitcoin or by uploading content the more downloads your video got the more points you would receive the website encouraged the active abuse of children it was time for the team to really put their heads down and capture as many people online with the site as they could, hoping to save the children in theprocess, during the investigation, the team noticed that there was no option for users, including moderators, to mine crypto L, which meant that all money left the site through crypto exchanges in South Korea, over three hundred A thousand dollars worth of bitcoins at that point would almost certainly belong to the owner of the site, so Tigrent approached South Korean crypto exchanges with thumb and coin one, while Chris approached a crypto exchange from Unidentified US to see who exactly. was running welcome to the video, all thanks to on-chain analysis, however there was a small snag, the exchanges couldn't simply give information on the uses, so the team had to obtain court orders in the background and then they continued probing the site for more. clues that you won't believe what happened as a basic security check.

Tigran right-clicked on the video home page and chose to view the page source. After doing so, he detected an IP address and did some checks to his surprise, it had not been like that. obscured by the anonymous Tor network, which meant it was looking at the unprotected address of the Welcome video server at that server location in South Korea, so the team was sure that was where the owner of Welcome was located. to the video and when the crypto exchanges finally contacted them, that lead solidified the profile packets that were sent contained the details of two men with their photographs attached were the two men co-owners of Welcome to the video the team didn't believe it So one of the men was middle-aged and had noticeably dirty hands.

He looked more like a farm worker than someone who ran a site on the dark web. Then there was the other person, a 21-year-old man named Song Jong-woo. . These ladies and gentlemen were welcomed to the owner of the videos, the two men were the father and Son, it was clear to the team that song jong-woo had used his father to set up crypto accounts that would eventually connect to the welcome video. Even though they finally had their man after weeks of investigation, the IRS did not authorize an immediate arrest with their Korean counterparts because they wanted to try to track down as many of the site's users without raising the alarm.

Hello, everyone. I'm Jesse Liu. I am the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Thank you all for being here for this. Very important announcement of important actions to protect children from sexual exploitation. Today I am joined by key partners in the federal government's fight against those who exploit the most vulnerable among us. Let me make absolutely clear what we are here to discuss today: the sexual exploitation of children is one of the worst forms of evil imaginable, in fact, these crimes are so heinous that it is difficult to even talk about our government not having a higher priority than safety of our children, for that reason I am pleased to announce the collapse of one of the largest child sexual exploitation markets on the dark web, welcome to video, the seizure of its enormous cache of child pornography and the revelation of the US indictment against his manager, John Woo Sun, welcome to video it was a web based tour and finally this case is really about three things first it's about following the money this has been our mantra for the last hundred years and if the funds are Fiat or virtual irsci experience and they do not track money around the world, second, it is about protecting our children, child pornographers prey on the youngest. and the most vulnerable in our society, the children who are unable to consent to these disgusting acts, these are the bottom feeders of the criminal world, there is no limit we cannot do to protect our children from these miserable individuals and ultimately , this case is about sending a message to criminals around the world, not a symbolic message, but a real message that you used to hide by laundering your money through shell companies all over the country, but we tracked you down, you took your money abroad and You hid it all over the world, but we found you. on the dark web thinking his actions were anonymous but they weren't and we found him again, now he trades cryptocurrencies again thinking this will make him anonymous but our agents have proven once again that there is nowhere he can hide, nope We will stop in our pursuit 337 people, most of them Korean, were arrested as a result of a joint operation carried out by the IRS, Homeland Security, the National Crime Agency, the German federal police and the Korean national police.

Detailed reports on arrests are difficult to find. In more than a handful of cases, a user who had been a top priority for law enforcement was a man who had been posting new videos of himself repeatedly raping a girl, and although this user was able to access the video content of Welcome without buying Bitcoin, since you had been accumulating points for downloads, you still went ahead and did it anyway. Those Bitcoin transactions were traced through chain analysis and it was finally identified. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Border Patrol Agent Paul Casey Whipple was one of their own.

A deep dive into Paul's social media. The accounts led authorities to a GoFundMe page where he was campaigning to raise money to legally adopt his stepdaughter. They are going to finance me. It contained a picture of Paul's stepdaughter wearing a specific red flannel shirt tied around her waist. With this information now in hand, the team returned. to see if Paul's stepdaughter was the girl in the welcome videos and there was the same red flannel shirt that was in the GoFundMe picture when detectives finally tracked him down. Paul initially denied the allegations, but later confessed to them.

Although he confessed in 2023, journalists claim he is still awaiting trial, it was not just one Homeland Security agent who was arrested as part of this investigation, but two Homeland Security agents, Richard Nikolai Gratkowski, who were assigned to a squad within of the ice to investigate. Gangs in San Antonio was found to be an avid user of the welcome video. Detailed details about his involvement with the site are scarce, other than that he was thought to have used Bitcoin to obtain an undisclosed amount of material from the site which was eventually traced. thanks to the network's analysis and he would plead guilty to one count of receiving child pornography and one count of accessing with intent to view child pornography.

He was jailed for five and a half years in May 2019. o Department of Homeland Security employees are held to the highest standards of behavior and ethics, while Ice does not comment on personal matters. The agency is cooperating fully with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General regarding this matter in the United Kingdom, a 26-year-old. Man Kyle Fox had been arrested by the National Crime Agency after being identified as a producer on the welcome video when officers arrested him at his home. He was found to be in possession of 13,000 images and videos of young children, including toddlers, being raped and sexually abused Kyle was a top priority for the nca as he posted videos of himself actively raping a child five years old and sexually abusing a three year old girl.

The young children appeared to be under the influence of drugs in the videos. When officers entered Carl's home to arrest him, the five-year-old boy who was being abused in the videos was found naked in his bed. It is unclear what relationship Kyle had with the children, but what is known is that the children were gone. They are related to each other Kyle Fox received a 22-year prison sentence as a result of the video welcome investigation. He will spend two more years on license when he is released. In reality, he abused two very young and vulnerable children.

His crimes were detected when a video of the abuse was uploaded to a file-sharing website and caught the attention of officers who were able to track him down from the data. These are extremely serious and depraved crimes. No sane person could be anything but horrified by this horrific series of crimes committed in March 2018. San jong-woo would eventually be apprehended by South Korean police for owning the largest child pornography site on Doc Net over allegations that he faced a prison sentence. 10 years, but the judge would sentence him to only two years in prison with three years of probation;

However, that prison sentence was suspended, meaning he would not spend any time in jail. The society home is excellent, but the accused is young and has no criminal record. He repented in September 2018. Sun was released after receiving that suspended sentence, but the legal battle was not over. You see, an appeal was made. brought by the prosecution because of the lenient sentence handed down they thought it was a slap in the face to all the victims considering the things I knew well I thought the sentence in the first trial was too light and unfair the second judge gave a His son, sentenced to 18 months in prison, he was released from prison in July 2020.

Thanks to the project In October 2019 it was announced that Sun was indicted by a United States federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for the Welcome to the Video operation. He expected to spend decades in prison if he was extradited and found guilty; However, after a long court battle, the Seoul High Court announced that it rejected the extradition request on the grounds that having a child in Korea would be more hopeful for the country's fight against child pornography. The extradition request was met with a backlash, with many members of the public protesting outside the Court, although ultimately his son would walk away as a temporarily free man anyway because in June 2022 he received a two-year prison sentence for laundering. the money he earned. welcome to the video yes, he received a longer prison sentence for money laundering than for ownership welcome to the video and there you have it, the dismantling of a dark web pedophile ring when I initially investigated this case, believe it or not, started with Matthew I was interested to see the first clues related to Hurtcore pass through a UK court, but after further research I noticed that police work dating back to the early 2010s was related to this case and Beyond The first domino would fall on the toppling of Freedom hosting, the last one we are currently aware of would be the removal of Welcome to Video, who knows, although there could be more related cases in the future.