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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

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childabuse; childporn; childsexabuse; darkweb; sexabuse
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Migrant crisis: More than 10,000 children 'missing'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35453589

Open borders allows for the free flow of children for sex abuse.

1 posted on 07/06/2017 4:16:22 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

From Reuters:

German police have uncovered an underground website for child pornography with nearly 90,000 users and arrested the suspected operator of the platform, prosecutors said on Thursday.

The “Elysium” platform, built as a forum, has existed since the end of 2016 and was only accessible via the so-called Darknet, FrankfurtThe public prosecutor’s office and BKA Federal Police said in a statement.

Police had arrested several users of the website, mainly in Germany and Austria, it said. Among them was the suspected operator of the platform, a 39-year-old man living in the district of Limburg-Weilburg north of Frankfurt.

The website had more than 87,000 users and was used for the worldwide exchange of child pornography and to make appointments for the sexual abuse of children, prosecutors said.

“Among the child pornographic images and video files exchanged by the members of the platform were recordings of the most serious sexual abuse of children, including toddlers and depiction of sexual violence against children,” it said.

The suspected operator was arrested on June 12 when police raided his apartment and seized the server of the platform.

The statement did not say how many people had been arrested, adding that more details of the case would be made available at a news conference on Friday.


2 posted on 07/06/2017 4:18:36 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Hopefully they found Podesta’s fingerprints


3 posted on 07/06/2017 4:18:42 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (Homer no function beer well without)
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To: TigerClaws

Sick mother f@#*ers.

Are they going to arrest the 87,000 users? WTF. 87,000 users on a site that was created less than a year ago.


4 posted on 07/06/2017 4:19:12 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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I want to know how CNN is involved in this horrible sex abuse website! Did they advertise on the site? Did their staff frequent the site? Of course, I’m not saying that they did, I’m just putting it out there for discussion and saying we need to ask ourselves if we can really trust CNN when they refuse to answer questions about their potential involvement in this site!


5 posted on 07/06/2017 4:20:37 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: TigerClaws

My heart breaks.

Monsters, all. There is no excuse to abuse children for your orgasms.

I’d like to try a planet without these evil people in it. We do not need them.


6 posted on 07/06/2017 4:22:38 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: TigerClaws

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


7 posted on 07/06/2017 4:23:40 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: MeganC

Maybe!


8 posted on 07/06/2017 4:23:57 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: MeganC

If CNN doesn’t apologize adequately for being involved in the pedo ring, they should be taken off the air and financially destroyed. Right?


9 posted on 07/06/2017 4:24:22 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: MeganC

Excellent


10 posted on 07/06/2017 4:24:24 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: big'ol_freeper

I had no idea the images that Scotland Yard distributed in the case of Madalyn’s (?) disappearance.

Striking....they are.


11 posted on 07/06/2017 4:25:14 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: Yaelle

Jesus will be coming back soon and those evil people will be thrown into the lake of fire. Maranatha.


12 posted on 07/06/2017 4:25:47 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: TigerClaws

90,000 is a lot.


13 posted on 07/06/2017 4:26:19 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TigerClaws

Death to all pedophiles.


14 posted on 07/06/2017 4:27:48 PM PDT by steel_resolve (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: TigerClaws

I find this to be incomprehensible. Just beyond belief. I am almost speechless.


15 posted on 07/06/2017 4:29:56 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: TigerClaws

Heartbreaking and infuriating. I have a 10 year old, a toddler, and an infant. Suffice it to say I would KILL anyone who touched one of my kids.


16 posted on 07/06/2017 4:30:55 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: TigerClaws

Ironically, the BBC has had a pretty poor track record itself when it comes to protecting pedophiles.

Glad to see that this is getting reported, and that at least some of the perpetrators are being caught and punished.

Exposing the darkness is part of bringing people to the light of the glory of God through the Gospel.


17 posted on 07/06/2017 4:36:41 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

“Sick mother f@#*ers.

Actually they are children f@#*ers


18 posted on 07/06/2017 4:39:00 PM PDT by Nicholas Sharpe
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To: steel_resolve

I’ve looked with wonderment at how evil a society can get.

From the good Lord’s point of view all sinners are zombies, walking dead. It isn’t how bad the sin looks to us that matters as much as how bad it looks to God.

News flash: not even children are innocent before Him sans the accepted ministry of God’s salvation.


19 posted on 07/06/2017 4:42:10 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: TigerClaws

Has Angela Merkle requested asylum yet?


20 posted on 07/06/2017 4:42:14 PM PDT by null and void (This is how socialists work: Erase the past, Bankrupt the present, Steal from the future.)
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