Child Pornography Social Networking Site Found and Shut Down

Authorities have closed down a social networking site where members shared their images of child pornography, and talked about their sexual interests in children. They had a password that protected non-members from seeing the information. The investigation has been ongoing since 2008, and 50 people have been arrested and 35 convicted. At one point, the site had a thousand active members. Most of the people were charged for advertising and distributing child pornography. This all began with 26 people charged in the Southern District of Indiana and then 500 more people throughout the world. This investigation led to charges of sexual abuse as well as there had been several posts where they talked about sexual abuse and posted images of it. Delwyn Savigar of the United Kingdom, the lead administrator of the site, was one of them. He was found to have been linked to unsolved cases of sexual abuse and had been charged for 14 years in prison for three cases of sexual abuse.

The fact that this site had over 1000 members disgusts me. To take advantage of kids who have no way to defend themselves and having sexual interest in them is neither normal nor acceptable. This is different from same sex marriage as these people are taking inappropriate interest over youth. These people need to all be caught and arrested because this isn’t fair to the kids who were abused and taken advantage of, their parents, and the rest of the world that gets disgusted by these people’s behavior. These people deserve death sentences, not just 14 years in jail. What is worse is that this social networking site had been going on for a while and could not be found so easily. What is the point of the Internet if it cannot help the police find criminals that are working on the web? Shouldn’t sites all be indexed to help find them and their members when an investigation like this happens? I believe people should find a plan to be able to do a better, quicker job when a case like this opens again.


http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/27/feds-shut-child-porn-social-networking-site/