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Warning Explicit Content: Feds Bust Horrific Child Porn Ring Exploiting Infants to 12-Years-Old

Dreamboard Operation DelegoFeds Bust Horrific Child Porn Ring Exploiting Infants to 12 Years Old

Perhaps the most repugnant story of the week comes on the heels of federal law enforcement agents busting a horrific global online child pornography ring. The site, titled “Dreamboard,” exploited children from infancy to 12-years-old, subjecting them to “violent” sexual assault.  According to reports, members of the ring insisted that each videotaped child be in genuine pain and tears during their attack.

While the ring was based in the U.S., its operations reportedly reached across five continents in 14 countries.

Now, 52 members of the ring have been arrested and charged in the U.S. and 10 have been arrested abroad, while another 20 suspects remain at large. According to reports four of the individuals arrested have pleaded guilty, each receiving sentences of more than 20 years in prison. Those sentenced are reportedly from Illinois, Alabama, Florida and Kentucky.

Those arrested outside the U.S. were picked up by officials in Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hungary, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Qatar, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland.

Roughly 600 men reportedly belonged to the now defunct “members only” online bulletin board, which authorities said urged and rewarded its members for sexually violating young children to the point of tears.

“The members of this criminal network shared a demented dream to create the pre-eminent online community for the promotion of child sexual exploitation but for the children they victimized this was nothing short of a nightmare,” Attorney General Eric Holder said.

The Attorney General also stated that is is  hard for him to imagine that “there will ever be a penalty that could appropriately deal with this kind of conduct.”

“Twenty to 30 years that the people have gotten in the past is, from my perspective, barely sufficient to handle what they have done in damaging the lives of these young people,” Holder said.

Watch the disturbing report below:

CNN reports on the unspeakable details of the child pornography law enforcement agents uncovered and what Holder had to say about the bust.

“In order to become part of the Dreamboard community, prospective members were required to upload pornography portraying children under 12 years of age or younger,” said Attorney General Eric Holder at a Justice Department news conference. “Once given access, the participants had to continually upload images of child sexual abuse in order to maintain membership. The more content they provided, the more content they were allowed to access. Members who created and shared images and videos of themselves molesting children received elevated status and greater access,” he said.

What particularly horrified investigators were “super-hardcore” posts that involved adults having violent sexual intercourse with “very young kids” who were being subjected to both physical and sexual abuse.

Holder said, “Some of the children featured in these images and videos were just infants and in many cases, the children being victimized were in obvious and also intentional pain, even in distress and crying, just as the rules for one area of the bulletin board mandated. They had to be in distress and crying.”

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano tried to explain the size and scope of the ring by stating: “To give you an example of the scope of this forum, the capture and analysis of the forum revealed that the board may have been the vehicle for the distribution of up to 123 terabytes of child pornography, which is roughly equivalent to nearly 16,000 DVDs. … Additional media recovered from the targets arrested in the United States alone has been found to contain over one million images of child pornography.”

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“As alleged, Dreamboard had strict rules and a rigid hierarchy. Its membership was tightly controlled by the group’s administrators,” Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer told reporters. “Applicants to the group were required to upload quote nude or hardcore child pornography to become members and members were required to continue posting additional images every 50 days or risk expulsion. Moreover, members could increase their status based on their level of commitment to the enterprise. From member, to VIP, to Super VIP, to the most elite status of all, Super VIP Dot. Only those members who produced their own child pornography could be granted the status of Super VIP Dot,” Breuer explained.

John Morton, the head of ICE, said the day marked a law enforcement “success” but was nonetheless a “sad” day because of the nature of the crimes involved.

“There are days in this job where it’s hard to separate great success from great sorrow and today is such a day. It‘s a day of great success because we’ve brought an end to one of the worst instances of Internet child abuse ICE has ever investigated. … It’s a day of great sorrow because this case is ultimately a tale of the perverse and often violent exploitation of children, very, very young children to satisfy the dark pleasures of a group of adult men,” Morton said.

It is difficult to imagine justice really ever being served in an instance such as this. What has this world come to?

Comments (22)

  • cokoskirt
    Posted on August 5, 2011 at 1:33pm

    To think that these guys have “rights.” They should be taken out back and shot.

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  • cokoskirt
    Posted on August 5, 2011 at 1:32pm

    as young as infants? I am sick to my stomach.

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  • jessieH
    Posted on August 5, 2011 at 11:30am

    A tall tree & a short piece of rope! Castration. Lead poisoning. Shark bait. I can think of a lot of ways to deal with these guys. Sitting in jail with cable tv, cell phones, and time off for good behavior is not what I would give them. Give them to the parents and family members of the victims.

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    • Casca
      Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:35pm

      I volunteer to personally punish these people. It will hurt.

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on August 5, 2011 at 10:46am

    “While the ring was based in the U.S., its operations reportedly reached across five continents in 14 countries.”

    Don’t you mean 14 countries in 5 continents?

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  • kyheadhunter
    Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:53am

    Take them out in a swamp put them on their knees and tie them to a tree, Let the ants, snakes and the gaters to the rest.

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  • Dawngreene
    Posted on August 5, 2011 at 7:27am

    may they burn in hell

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  • Platonician
    Posted on August 5, 2011 at 6:59am

    The liberal depravity of the 60‘s and 70’s has led us to this point of moral disaster.
    Another reason to fight against the left and the moral decadence its promotes!

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  • UrsaMajor
    Posted on August 5, 2011 at 6:03am

    When (not “if”) their fellow inmates find out what these evil people have done, there WILL be prison justice.

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  • martinrnelson
    Posted on August 5, 2011 at 12:24am

    They are only going to get 20 years? If convicted, the death penalty should be the payment for this.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:52pm

    Them Poor Fellas.They were Born That way.Lady Ga Ga says so!When Is New York Going to have a Pedophile pride day?

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  • toto
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:37pm

    Someone should look into each one of these animals and expose their pictures and all their personal information on the web. Prison is too good for them. It’s a good thing I am not in charge of their fate, feeding them to the lions seems like one just solution.

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  • Unstable Phenomenon
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 7:47pm

    Also let us not forget to thank the law enforcement agencies who brought down those sick individuals. God Bless those law enforcement agencies, great job.

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  • psadie
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 7:20pm

    ANYONE who harms or murders children should get the death penalty at once. These are innocents who cannot protect and defend themselves from predators. They need to go to HELL.

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  • thinkinghuman
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 7:01pm

    These people need to be ABSOLUTELY killed. There is no hope for them. No redemption for them. Jesus talked about those who offended little ones and He said it is better to put a millstone about their neck and throw them into the depths of the sea.

    So lets do that.

    Luke 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

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  • Liberalsrdinks
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 5:25pm

    Lets get these guys and reform them!! Put them back on the streets as decent people, right liberals??? There is no reform for these kinds of animals, death penalty means no REPEAT offenders!!

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    • Unstable Phenomenon
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 7:44pm

      I tell you what, I have been in law enforcement on and off since 2001, and you are so correct about how corrupt the liberals are in the criminal justice system. Liberals pretty much control the criminal courts, lawyers etc. In a particular case on man was charged with 3 separate counts of sexual assault on 3 separate victims. The first time somehow he only got 9 months, the second charge he 8 years was paroled after 2 years ( not sure why ) and he violated parole by sexually assaulting his 3rd victim. All thanks to the liberals who believe this guy has to be released back into the community, not even thinking about the rights of the victims.

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  • tower7femacamp
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 4:52pm

    now let’s investigate the CPS
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwBBK7MOtDU

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    • Banter
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 5:19pm

      S%^&T Tower, you just enlightened me on something I wasn’t even aware. I will hold my 4 yr old son a bit closer. At a minimum I will ask my congressman Dennis Ross what he knows. Thanks

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 7:13pm

      no problem BANTER I always love it when people
      do get it.
      You give me hope that together we can fight the evil tyranny and turn this country back
      to the freest place on the planet.

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  • tower7femacamp
    Posted on August 4, 2011 at 4:51pm

    Sen Nancy Schaefer’s needs to go on
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TcDTJlPWbE

    Report Post » tower7femacamp  

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