FED:Eleven held on child porn charges

08-28-2010
FED:Eleven held on child porn charges

A member of Facebook's security team will visit Australia next month to take part in
workshops bringing together child-safety advocates.

It follows yesterday's arrest of three local men caught up in a major child porn ring
on the social networking site.

The men .. two from Victoria and one from New South Wales .. were among 11 people arrested
in an international operation to bust a child exploitation ring spanning four continents.

The arrests are part of a joint Australian Federal Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation
crackdown which began earlier this year.

The AFP says while Facebook de-activated the accounts of the initial suspects .. within
hours the groups were re-forming as new accounts.

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