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Germany busts Elysium child sex abuse website (87,000 members)
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Posted on 07/06/2017 4:16:22 PM PDT by TigerClaws

German police have busted a child sex abuse site on the dark web where images and videos were exchanged.

The secret Elysium website had 87,000 members and was launched on the internet in December, prosecutors say.

The suspected ringleader, a 39-year-old man, was arrested in the state of Hesse. The forum was also used to make appointments to abuse children.

Police seized the website's server. They found that toddlers were among the children sexually abused, reports say.

The chief suspect was arrested at his home in the Limburg-Weilburg area north of Frankfurt on 12 June.

He has been linked not only to spreading videos and images of child sex abuse but is also suspected of carrying out acts of serious sexual abuse.

What is the dark web?

Several suspected users of the site have been arrested in Germany and Austria.

Three were held in Germany and another 14 were detained in Austria, according to local reports. Prosecutors were due to give further details on Friday.

The website only appeared on the dark web at the end of last year but attracted tens of thousands in a matter of months.

Sites on the dark web are not visible through normal search engines, and while there are many legitimate uses for it, it has become a magnet for online criminal activity. Related

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childabuse; childporn; childsexabuse; darkweb; sexabuse
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To: TigerClaws

A trusted source close to the investigation tells me that every single CNN employee was a member of this site.

Of course if I’m wrong I will issue a correction in September on page 32.


41 posted on 07/06/2017 5:26:22 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: Caipirabob

Very true. Prayers up.

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.


42 posted on 07/06/2017 5:26:34 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: SecondAmendment

Very true.


43 posted on 07/06/2017 5:27:50 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: ifinnegan

We will just have to make sure we change barrels a lot...


44 posted on 07/06/2017 5:28:38 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (In Safe Space, no one can hear you weep....No one cares either.)
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To: TigerClaws
I think that in Germany and everywhere else the law enforcement people have known where these sites and groups are for a long time.

Whether breaking up a site, even this big, is smoke and mirrors keep law enforcement from going after the establishment crowd into the same things or there's really been a sea change that will lead to a lot of these sorts of sites being taken down remains to be seen.

45 posted on 07/06/2017 5:31:48 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Bigg Red

The very best battle move is helping wounded hearts fend off and overcome the assaults of sin. A strange battle of guiding mercy.

And the king of that is Jesus. If He does it without Michael that must be praised and honored!!


46 posted on 07/06/2017 5:47:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Rashputin

Au contraire to at least one meaning of your tag. Jesus mercifully spares us, leads us away from, battles He does not will us to be embroiled in.

Jesus is not a self will power vending machine. He is guiding and providing Love.


47 posted on 07/06/2017 5:51:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: barmag25

So the same devil gets to trap both them and you?


48 posted on 07/06/2017 5:52:46 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Steely Tom

And I’m sure none of those 87,000 members were part of the ruling elite.


...or worked for CNN.


49 posted on 07/06/2017 5:53:29 PM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
So, Jesus isn't a self will power vending machine when you dropped your dime into your own self will power vending machine it dropped out authority for you to dictate to others what Scripture means? Right, just like it dropped that same authority out to everyone else who follows the same fundamental doctrines you do.

You folks just love to argue and personalize rather than looking at the facts. The simple, undeniable facts are that as a Catholic I acknowledge that the Scripture is correct about the evils of sodomy and many other things based on the interpretations of Scripture that have been handed down straight from Christ and the Apostles while non-Catholics each decide for themselves how to interpret Scripture and even what Scripture to toss into the garbage can.

So, pretend whatever you like. I rest in the authority of Christ secure in the knowledge of Bible, the entire Bible, and how it should be interpreted as passed down directly from Christ and the Apostles. Non-Catholics (based on their own self will power vending machine ideas) ultimately rest in the Self and Self Alone shaping Christ into whatever they want Him to be.

Perverts of all stripes claim just as much authority as the people like you who stomp their feet at me for just stating undeniable facts. So, stomp away, you authority is based on your own self will power vending machine interpretations and nothing more. If on occasion they agree with what's been the constant teaching of the Church for two thousand years it's usually only a temporary coincidence, like having taught for roughly four hundred years that contraception was always a sin right up until they decided not to bother teaching that anymore.

Someone else puts a different coin in their self will power vending machine and the selects a different little treat for themselves than what you chose and they rest in exactly the same authority you do. That's nothing but fundamental Protestant and Protestant derived basic teaching fundamental to non-Catholic theology whether individual or organized into some specifically named sect or Church.

50 posted on 07/06/2017 6:31:02 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
"Without customers, there would be nobody to vend the evil to."

Yeah, WHERE do the kids come from??

51 posted on 07/06/2017 6:36:57 PM PDT by jackibutterfly (We have to stop saying "How stupid can you get". Too many people are seeing it as a challenge.)
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To: TigerClaws

Anyone want to bet there’s at least a few .gov addresses in that list?


52 posted on 07/06/2017 6:39:15 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: TigerClaws

Finding 87,000 jail cells will be difficult so the worst abusers can be executed.


53 posted on 07/06/2017 7:06:25 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: MeganC

Time to shut down the dark web. Freedom cannot last if lawlessness reigns supreme.


54 posted on 07/06/2017 7:54:00 PM PDT by sagar
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To: thoughtomator
Probably backed up duplicates of all the data on machines with a .gov address, too.

Makes ya' wonder what all was on that server Hillary and the DNC refused to let the FBI have access to.

55 posted on 07/06/2017 8:10:15 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: jackibutterfly

I said customers. What the hell is this about?


56 posted on 07/06/2017 8:16:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: sagar

All it is, is the ordinary web with privately published addresses.

Also if this is talking about things like The Onion Router, this is a frequent means of people in oppressed countries to get at basic documents about liberty and freedom.

We do not want to cut the man’s head off in order to save him.


57 posted on 07/06/2017 8:17:48 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Excuse me. I read that wrong. I thought “customers” were the pedophiles, and I thought the “nobody” were the kids. So, I thought I was affirming what you were saying. But, I still ask, where do the kids come from for the pedophiles to abuse?


58 posted on 07/06/2017 8:46:01 PM PDT by jackibutterfly (We have to stop saying "How stupid can you get". Too many people are seeing it as a challenge.)
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To: TigerClaws

The server logs should be interesting.


59 posted on 07/07/2017 7:35:27 AM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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To: zeugma

Yup. 87,000 members. It boggles the mind.

There are secret places on the internet, which is why mass shooters usually destroy their hard drives.


60 posted on 07/07/2017 7:37:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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