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While we generally try to avoid putting the words "pedophile" and "librarian" in the same sentence, sometimes it cannot be avoided. In the UK, Reuters is reporting that after one of the biggest undercover police investigations into online abuse in Britain. A pedophile who acted as a "librarian" for a global Internet child abuse ring was jailed Monday. Police say they have identified 360 suspects around the globe.Philip Thompson, who is 27 and unemployed, had apparently collected nearly a quarter of a million indecent pictures of children. He is in prison for a minimum of 45 months, after pleading guilty to 27 child abuse charges.
The operation was assisted by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), a police agency in the UK. The case began more than a year ago, when London's Metropolitan Police pedophile unit started monitoring an Internet forum, where users posted barely legal images of children and let others comment on them. They would then make direct email contact with one another, and exchange their own explicit material.
"He was a senior administrator for a pedophile Web site and was effectively a librarian for the storing and distribution of indecent images of children," Detective Sergeant Rebecca Driscoll told the press.
That's twice with the librarians. Sorry. [From: Reuters]
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Subscribe to commentshall monitorAug 19th 2008 11:25AM
The latest from http://detentionslip.org :
Teacher accused of having sex with 12-year old. These stories are a dime a dozen in the US. Check out the site for all the crazy headlines from the schools.
Benjamin WrightAug 19th 2008 11:41AM
Evan: The web provides provides bad guys lots of resources that convey a sense of secrecy. Yet all these tools, services and support can be a double-edged sword for the cyber-criminal. The crook can never have a full grasp of the audit trails (discoverable bread crumbs) that a tool, service or "library" is creating about his caper, or whether his "trading partners" are in fact law enforcement or stool pigeons. In the digital age, bad behavior is infinitely dangerous. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/people-in-authority-sometimes-abuse.html
Mary HguewoodAug 19th 2008 10:16PM
45 mos?? This scumbag should be locked away for the rest of his life! The law must know that he is involved in child abuse, yet they only give him a few months of jail time. I find that outrageous, and feel that it should be extended to many, many years. These scumbags cannot change, and once he is out, he will just go his merry way abusing innocent children. Society MUST do something to change this.