Online child porn ring busted
Members of a Russian internet child porn ring run by a retired school teacher in Perm in the Urals have been sentenced to jail terms from six to 11 years.
The teacher and five others were found guilty of perversion involving children between eight and 10 years old, and distributing pornography online, says Kommersant here.
Police launched an inquiry in March 2001 after a Perm family reported their 10-year-old son had been kept in an apartment in the city for three days and forced to be photographed nude, says the report.
The ring “plied them [children] with drink” and paid them 50 to 100 roubles (around $1.94 to $3.88) for each ’session’ . The photos were sent to Moscow and posted on websites.
The retired teacher and six other men were arrested in 2002.
“The defendants, one of whom was acquitted on grounds of diminished responsibility and committed for psychiatric treatment, all pleaded not guilty and insisted there was no proof the children had been forced into the sex acts,” says the story.
Nine victims testified, but considerably more children were targeted by the porn ring during its two years of existence, said judge Oleg Veselov.
The teacher was jailed for 11 years “in a high-security penal colony,” and the other five men sentences from six to 10 years.
All six will appeal their convictions, adds Kommersant.
In 2002, US Customs agents and Moscow police dismantled ‘Blue Orchid’, a Moscow-based child pornography internet ring. At the time, police estimated then that pornographic photographs and videos worth $US17 million ($A22 million) were produced every month in Moscow alone, of which between 10 and 15 per cent was child pornography.
January 26th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
This is just the tip of the iceberg in child porn in Russia and the former Soviet Republics ie; Ukrane, Slovakia, Albania etc! Eastern European websites host child porn as if it were what we term legal porn. There are two very distinct age groupings, five to twelve & twelve to fifteen. The first is Kiddy or Kitty Porn & the other is Teenie or Lolita Porn. Both are sometimes known as Nymphet Porn & the Eastern Europeans are marketing these very blatantly. I have come across at least 1,000 different sites relating to girls and at least 100 relating to boys in my research for my book & my Thesis. There is a very large discrepancy in the number of girl sites compared to boy sites & this is to be expected, as Kinsey pointed out only 10% of the population have homosexual tenancies & so it would seem to transfer to the paedophile community.
I am of the belief that Paedophilia is a sexuality & people who are natural paedophiles cannot help themselves & therefore are always a risk to children. There are also other paedophiles who are not natural or genetic paedophiles & these people can be cured as they have been indoctrinated into paedophilia from a young age. They just need to be re-educated! Some research was carried out in the 1980’s & the result was that 70% of Heterosexual males & 30% of homosexual males interviewed admitted having fantasies about people under the age of consent using a median age of consent of sixteen years of age. That doesn’t mean they are paedophiles & the homosexual figure is probably quite small given the stress on youth within the homosexual community.
What it does infer is that males are very much influenced by youth & even though there are female paedophiles they are not reported to the same extent as males to the authorities. Boys who are victims of a female paedophile don’t generally see themselves as victims but as lucky recipients of the female’s sexual knowledge. There are a handful of incidents on record and in all of the incidents reported by the victim, the victim was a young gay male, the other incidents were reported by the parents.
But I digress, Child Internet Porn has nothing to do with paedophilia but a lot to do with money. What it has done though is give the amateur film maker/star a market for his child porn. Some paedophiles have to tell the world what they are doing & what better way to stick it up the authorities & the community at large than to telecast their deeds on the internet, just to prove how right they are & how wrong the community is over their sexuality.
As long as the Eastern European Crime Syndicates are involved in Internet Child Porn it will never be cleaned up as the countries concerned have no intention of intervening in organised crime!
Tony