72 charged in online global child porn ring
Washington (CNN) — More than 50 members of a child pornography ring who engaged in what authorities describe as "horrific" and "unspeakable" crimes have been arrested for sexually exploiting children from 12 years old to as young as infants.
Network That Preyed on Children Is Broken | NYT
Published: August 3, 2011
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators announced on Wednesday that they had dismantled a sophisticated global network of pedophiles who traded pornographic videos and images of children as young as infants over the Internet, using encryption and proxy servers to evade detection.
About 600 people around the world were members of the online bulletin board “Dreamboard” before it shut down this spring amid the investigation, officials said. The Justice Department announced that 72 people had been charged so far, including more than 50 already arrested in the United States and abroad.
The network specialized in graphic and often violent images of the sexual abuse of children under the age of 12, including infants. It created an incentive among its members to create new files by kicking them out of the network if they did not upload material at least once every 50 days, and by granting them greater access to its archives if they created their own child pornography, said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer.
“Words cannot describe how horrific the enterprise’s alleged crimes were,” Mr. Breuer said. “Dreamboard was extreme even among online child abuse forums. So-called ‘super hard-core’ images — those depicting adults having violent sexual intercourse with ‘very young kids’ — were highly valued.” […]
Finally.
- Real children (not adolescents), really young,
- real intercourse (not sexy posing).
- Real victimization (not voluntary sexting or voluntary joyful photo sessions)
Exactly what the unitiated person envisions when the world "child pornography" is used. And they actually encouraged production of more material through actually abusing children. And one section of the board was specifically about children in pain with tears. (level 10 on the Copine scale)
It is shocking that the feminist and religious anti child pornography crusaders devalue the suffering of truly abused children by conflating
- such horrible true abuse of children with
- adolescent sexting (self photos) and
- adolescents in Leotards dancing provocatively (Knox vs. USA).
All theses 3 are called child porn. In cases 2 and 3, there is no child, no porn, but it is called "child porn". Thus , with such manipulative language the populace can be whipped up into a frenzy. It makes them believe that harmless adolescent erotica are violent depictions of child sex.
More Human Stupidity Analysis further below.
The investigation began in 2009, and officials said they were trying to identify the victims
Human-Stupidity Analysis
- We are surprised we found out about this shocking case months after it turned public. Somehow, amidst all the child pornography witch hunt frenzy, this extreme case did not call an commensurate amount of attention
- Finally, amongst all the victimless child pornography [children photographing themselves masturbating, sexting adolescents, fully dressed 15 year old dancers (Knox vs. USA), manga drawings], finally real penetrative child sexual abuse. And members even encourage further actual abuse. Finally one true case where the worst expectations of the child pornography inquisitions became true. And we don’t hear much about it.
- Those who really produce abusive child pornography deserve punishment for violently abusing pre-pubertal children. Enough laws always were in place for that, child pornography laws are not really needed. Though, we admit, in this case CP laws make prosecution easier.
- We suspect that the worst CP, freshly produced penetrative sex with young prepubertal children in tears, is just a very small percentage. We also suspect that the lesser members did not have access to that. We suspect that the majority of the CP (child pornography) material found is just the garden variety of adolescents having normal age appropriate sex, joyful posing and more. We can not know, because this analysis is not provided.
- Note that no financial initiative was given nor needed for the production of CP (child pornography).
- The lesser members, who did not actively engage in child abuse, nor actively encouraged it, do they need 10 year to 200 year prison sentences? Remember Professor Milton Diamond proved, in peer reviewed academic papers, that freely accessable child pornography greatly reduced child sexual abuse in half a dozen countries. The mechanisms seems to be that the pedophiles watch pornographic material, masturbate and thus take the pressure off their sexual drive. They act out their phantasy with pornographic material instead of with real children.
- Dr. Milton Diamond suggests to use artificially produced child pornography (drawings, photoshop, young looking adults, etc.). Human-Stupidity suggests to additionally use
- Child porn that was produced without vicitms. Sexting photos, legally produced 15 year old porn from the 70ies in Holland,
- Old child pornography could be grandfathered. Whatever has been produced before a certain cutoff date is legal, because no new vicitmization will happen (except for the voodoo theory of CP). This site must have a HUGE database of pretty much all CP in existence and could provide CP for decades to come without need to victimize new children to produce more CP.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said, "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." CNN
How can I do this?
Hey everyone,
I know this is years old but I can provide a bit of information about the website known as dreamboard.
1. The human stupidity analysis is correct in that lower level members had no knowledge of what higher levels of access contained.
2. For a time adult porn or non nude content of teen models was enough to grant someone access to the first level of the site. Only once the admin approved a new members entrance post was that member granted first level access. Then only once inside did someone realize the forum contained nude images and videos of teens and preteens.
3. There were four or five access levels and the highest was simply known as the place where the website admin kept his collection of content.
4. Contributions were not measured by how many posts a member made, but by megabytes uploaded and content quality. Any new level of access had to come from the admin personally.
5. Nowhere on levels one or two was there any indication that the highest level of access came with the expectation of creating new content.
6. The most extreme content was never posted on level one. Level two held a really young content section, but not ever being curious to look at the threads posted within its impossible to provide any information on how extreme or violent the content was.
7. Level two access could be gained by posting non nude photosets as well. The main differences between level one and two were a young section, a full image set section, and a video section for longer length videos.
8. At level one all the additional sections in level two were hidden. A preview thread existed showing a screen shot of some threads at level two, but not all of them. At level two a preview thread existed showing some level three information.
9. Most things posted to the site were many years old. Some of it likely from the sixties and seventies. While I can’t speak for anything above level two, no thread I saw ever advertised fresh content.
10. Likely just prior to federal agents becoming members is when I lost my membership. Not visiting the site often (it was so encrypted it’s true login page url changed daily, and thus I had to keep track of a bulletin board page that had about 300 links to various sites, one simply said dreamboard) I lost level two membership after a month of inactivity. Then I read the updated contribution guidelines which were more strict. At that point I gave up and after being away for two or three months my membership was no longer valid.
Not to worry though because at some point I visited a website that had been hacked and taken over by an image board that contained as I found out later the legal definition of child porn. When the real webmaster found out he or she let Interpol know and they managed to generate a list of every ip address that visited the hacked page. Among an unknown number of others my address was forwarded to ice in the United States and eventually they came with a search warrant. I was charged with possession of child porn. Though not any of the stuff someone might imagine when they read or hear the phrase child pornography.
@nobody, thanks for your report as a victim of child porn hysteria induced persecution
I’ve been doing a little further ‘research’ into this story and I think that this ‘dreamboard’ site could well have been an entrapment website or forum set-up by the FBI, read here if you haven’t already: http://www.inquisition21.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=150
(I noticed you’ve already quoted a few paragraphs from our colleague at Inquisition21) in your post: “Child Porn entrapment of webmasters, blog authors, email recipients and any web-browsing citizens”…
this is all really scary stuff!
It practically spells it out, that any man that uses a compouter on this God foresaken planet could easily become a victim of this insanity…
Talk about punishments, looking at pictures of a crime can carry punishments longer than the crime itself, what’s the logic here?
And the same goes with teenage sexting. In jurisdictions where the age of consent is 16, 16 year olds are legally able to consent to sexual activity, but having a nude picture of a 16 year old girl is “exploiting” and “abusing” the girl while having real sex with her is not?
Put it this way, a 16 year old can legally consent to having a 3 way with 2 guys who’s old enough to be her grandpa, but she can’t send a picture of herself naked to her boyfriend the same age because he’d be abusing her?
The entire system is just messed up, backed by acts named after a victims such as Adam Walsh.
Interesting that this article wasn’t noticed for some 5 months after it all went live on NYT and CNN webpages – it’s ‘old news’ now.
As usual I noticed there were 2740 comments on CNN’s page (didn’t bother looking on NYT’s as it would probably be similar), all expressing the usual hate towards all peadophiles, including those that merely looked at the images, but didn’t create any of them themselves.
All of these commenters talk about KILLING in the most horrible ways imgainable: all of those involved, yet I didn’t read anything anywhere that actually stated that any of the perverts belonging to this ‘ring’ actually murdered anyone.
Sure, what those men who earned themselves ‘senior’ status or whatever they call it are true scum-bags and the full force of the law regarding rape and child molestation should be dealt to those found guilty.
However, there are worse things that can happen to children – none of those victims were murdered, thank God, yet nearly all of those commenters say those perverts should be executed in the most horrific ways possible.
It just scares me to thank that I am living and working beside people with such a level HATRED in their hearts – regardless of the reasons.
Hate in any form and at a whole society level can and has in the past: destroyed entire civilizatons…
If a man gets drunk and drives his car and in the course of doing so runs over and kills a child, would these same people commenting on CNN all demand that the drunk driver (who by his own DELIBERATE disregard for others, got drunk then as a result kills a child because he was drunk) should be tortured to death, or at least run over and killed by a 25 ton truck as punishment?
I some how think not…
Yet they think that perverts who merely look at pictures of kids having sex should be killed!
This type of thinking that is clearly the result of the world-wide feminist peado-hysteria shaped hatred is as bad, if not worse than the actions of those child-porn merchants they all so gleefully persecute and condemn (to a fate worse than death).
They are no less ‘sick’ than the peodophiles themselves – by wishing death on persons who in most cases hadn’t even touched a child (merely looked at images of them) and most certainly hadn’t killed anyone at all.
I thought the death penalty was only used sometimes to punish crimes of homicide?
This insane, illogical thinking and hate and its resultant witch-hunt of ‘perverts’ or ‘paedophiles’ is slowly but surely eroding the moral core of our society and making it more and more unsafe for everyone that belongs to it, especially for children.