"The worst scene imaginable..." - Update on March 15 net child porn bust story

A week old, but another follow-up to the story where international authorities broke up an online child porn ring involving 27 members. Some of the details are revisted from the initial report, but this article focuses a bit on the Canadian side of the sting effort. The Toronto police apparently did an outstanding job. Police stumbled into the worst scene imaginable - live web broadcasts of people raping children and even babies By MICHELE MANDEL Toronto Sun Thu, March 16, 2006 No longer content with disgusting still images of the worst imaginable child pornography. No longer titillated with the recycling of the same horrific child porn videos. And so it has now come to this -- live child sexual assault, online and on demand. In an investigation that began in Edmonton, and with suspects identified by Toronto Police's renowned child exploitation branch, 27 people have been arrested in four countries in a global online child pornography sting. Not only were these users of the Kiddypics & Kiddyvids chat room exchanging child porn, some were making their own by raping children and sharing it with their fellow perverts, sometimes live via webcam. One baby victim was so young that it still had its umbilical cord attached. Read the rest, but be forewarned, it's extremely unsettling, to say the least. [SS] human trafficking, sexual slavery, pornography, child pornography, fleshploitation