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The South Korean user of a child publishing website described as the “largest dim web child porn marketplace” has been indicted by a sovereign grand jury, a Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Jong Woo Son, 23, was charged with 9 depends — including one count promotion child pornography, dual depends distributing child pornography, and 3 depends of income laundering. Authorities also announced that 337 users of a site, famous as Welcome to Video, had been arrested and charged. Those users resided in 23 states and a District of Columbia, as good as 11 countries.
“Darknet sites that distinction from a passionate exploitation of children are among a many sinister and reprehensible forms of rapist behavior,” pronounced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of a Justice Department’s Criminal Division in a statement.
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“This Administration will not concede child predators to use riotous online spaces as a shield. Today’s proclamation demonstrates that a Department of Justice stays resolutely committed to operative closely with a partners in South Korea and around a universe to rescue child victims and move to probity a perpetrators of these offensive crimes,” he added.
According to a indictment, on Mar 5, 2018, authorities from a United Kingdom and South Korea arrested Son and seized a server that he used to work a Darknet marketplace that exclusively advertised child passionate exploitation videos accessible for download. Son is now portion his judgment in a South Korean prison.
This May 14, 2013, record print shows a Department of Justice domicile building in Washington early in a morning. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
Officials seized about 8 terabytes of child passionate exploitation videos, one of a largest seizures of a kind. The images, that are being analyzed by a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, contained over 250,000 singular videos, and 45 percent of a videos now analyzed enclose new images that have not been formerly famous to exist.
The Justice Department reported that authorities had discovered during slightest 23 minors in a U.S., U.K., and Spain who were “being actively abused” by Welcome To Video users.
Welcome To Video offering these videos for sale regulating a cryptocurrency bitcoin, a Justice Department said, adding that a website is among a initial of a kind to monetize child exploitation videos regulating bitcoin.
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“Children are a many exposed population, and crimes such as these are unthinkable,” pronounced HSI Acting Executive Associate Director Alysa Erichs in a statement. “Sadly, advances in record have enabled child predators to censor behind a dim web and cryptocurrency to serve their rapist activity. However, today’s complaint sends a clever summary to criminals that no matter how worldly a record or how widespread a network, child exploitation will not be tolerated in a United States. Our whole probity complement will stop during zero to forestall these iniquitous crimes, guarantee a children, and move probity to all.”
