Source :Perth Now

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/
four-facing-child-porn-charges/story-e6frg13u-1225915286987?from=public_rss

POLICE have arrested four men in a crackdown on the sharing of child pornography via the internet. Officers from the online child exploitation squad searched 13 properties in the metropolitan area and mid-west Gascoyne, between August 30 and September 2. Superintendent Graeme Castlehow said the investigation, codenamed Operation Bornholm, was set up to identify people who use the peer-to-peer computer networks to trade, share and view child pornography. “This operation highlights the importance of Child Protection Week and is a timely reminder that downloading child pornography is a serious criminal offence," he said. "WA Police continues to use its technical capacity to identify those who access or make available child pornography on-line, through peer to peer networks.

Source :BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11217772

In Afghanistan women are not allowed to dance in public, but boys can be made to dance in women's clothing - and they are often sexually abused. It's after midnight. I'm at a wedding party in a remote village in northern Afghanistan. There is no sign of the bride or groom, or any women, only men. Some of them are armed, some of them are taking drugs. “Start Quote Sometimes we gather together and put women's clothes and dancing bells on our boys and they dance for us for two-three hours - that's all” End Quote 'Zabi' Almost everyone's attention is focused on a 15-year-old boy. He's dancing for the crowd in a long and shiny woman's dress, his face covered by a red scarf. He is wearing fake breasts and bells around his ankles. Someone offers him some US dollars and he grabs them with his teeth. This is an ancient tradition. People call it bachabaze which literally means "playing with boys".

Source :CTV news

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100827/cana
dians-arrested-australian-police-100827/

Two Canadians are among a group of 11 people arrested for allegedly being part of a global child pornography ring that used Facebook to connect members and share materials. The men were arrested as part of an international police operation that netted suspects in three countries. In addition to the two Canadians, six people were arrested in Britain and three in Australia.

Source :humantrafficking.change.org

http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/fbi_d
enies_facilitating_child_sex_trafficking_to_nab_mob?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Federal prosecutors in New York City are fighting allegations that they allowed a 15-year-old girl to be forced into prostitution while they investigated the Gambino crime family's human trafficking activities. A defense lawyer for the Gambinos, however, claims the government allowed the teen to be exploited in order to make their case. Did the FBI allow child sex trafficking? A few months ago, the infamous Gambino crime family was caught pimping kids on Craigslist, a move that many considered a low point, even for them. The bust was the result of a long government investigation, which included the participation of a cooperating witness who worked for the Gambinos. According to the witness, he began working with the government in 2008. But for most of 2009, while collaborating with the FBI, he acted as a pimp for a 15-year-old girl.

Source :The Victoria Times Colonist

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/pleads+guilty+ch
ild+porn+case/3477545/story.html

A Saanich man, who fled to Britain in an attempt to avoid serious child sex-abuse charges, pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of child pornography. John Cox, 34, was to appear in Victoria provincial court for a preliminary inquiry but instead pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on Sept. 5, 2008.

Source :Expose Report

http://www.exposereport.com/enews/index.php/sex-of
fender-news/129-facebook-refused-to-notify-police-of-child-porn-ringleader

UK - A convicted sex offender has been jailed for four years after he was found guilty yesterday of using Facebook to share more than 100,000 indecent images of children. Ian Green, 45, from West Sussex admitted to 24 charges of making, possessing and distributing images of abused children. He was discovered during an international investigation which began in Australia earlier this year and linked a number of Facebook accounts containing the child pornography to a user in the UK.

Source :The Canadian Press

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/art
icle/ALeqM5gHRXdeBhBU3TLU0Zq8FE7EeN3BTw

Thai police arrested a Belgian man on pedophilia charges and a Thai national accused of supplying him with underage children in an illegal trafficking ring, an officer said Thursday. Philippe Francois, 41, was arrested Wednesday evening at his apartment in the northern city of Chiang Mai, where he had allegedly engaged in sexual acts with at least three teenagers, two of whom were minors, said police Lt. Col. Chaichan Penchaiya.

Source :Pacific Islands News Agency

http://www.pina.com.fj/index.php?p=pacnews&m=read&
o=17924516964c735ce3c34aba5ffdab&PHPSESSID=2fc4bba98fdc9c11293a5b760e3c91b0

International consultants on child abuse and sexual exploitation have warned Papua New Guineans to be cautious of child sex tourists. These are people who target specific countries and travel under the guise of tourists but with the intention of sexually exploiting young girls and children. Carl Collins and Ian Hopley, during a joint presentation at a one-day seminar addressing child abuse and sexual exploitation, said PNG had the potential of being a target for child sex tourists because of problems with enforcing laws, widespread corruption and poverty where money does the talking. Mr Hopley said commercial sex was rampant in Pacific countries, including PNG, and the country had to be aware of how the perpetrators operated to safeguard their women and children from being exploited.

Source :NZHerald

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/crime/news/article.cfm?c
_id=30&objectid=10667791

There is hope the first ever New Zealand arrest over the child sex tourism industry will send a strong message. A 46-year-old Auckland motel and property manager is accused of organising and promoting child sex tours to South East Asia, and dealing in children for sexual exploitation. Alan Bell of the anti-child-prostitution group ECPAT hopes the arrest will serve as a strong warning. He says all types of child exploitation are driven by profit - and where there is money to be made, people are willing to get involved. Mr Bell says the international organisation is dedicated to ending child prostitution and works tirelessly to stop the trade.

Source :U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

http://149.101.23.4/pi/nr/1008/100818providence.htm

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ten teams totaling more than 70 state, federal and local law enforcement agents fanned out across Rhode Island today armed with arrest warrants targeting individuals identified in a lengthy multi-agency investigation into online child pornography and child exploitation.