Feds take down the “world’s largest child porn marketplace” October 2019

[IceIce9]

Feds take down the world's 'largest dark web child porn marketplace'

The now-shuttered English-language site, called "Welcome to Video," contained more than 200,000 unique videos or almost 8 terabytes of data showing sex acts involving children, toddlers and infants, according to the 18-page criminal indictment unsealed here Wednesday, and processed 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth more than $730,000.

"The scale of this crime is eye-popping and sickening," John D. Fort, chief of IRS criminal investigations, said.

The site allegedly rewarded its members with "points" in relation to the amount of illegal material they uploaded, authorities announced Wednesday.

One user of the site, a former federal U.S. law enforcement agent, even downloaded more than 50 hours worth of videos

 

[Filly]

From BBC.com

South Korean officials decided not to extradite Son Jong Woo who ran the site to the US to be prosecuted. He spent 18 months in prison in South Korea.

Korean officials figured it better to keep him in the country in hopes he could help identify who and how child pornographers are using the dark web.

 

[book-thinker]

The sad thing about individuals who download this vile and despicable stuff, they can look and act like someone’s next door neighbor. In the United States, receiving the a lengthy sentence for this type of crime is a few years. This is after a plea deal.