There are two-hundred suspects based in Britain, said the CEOP. Regarding the thirty-one children, some only a few months old, more than fifteen were in Britain, the center said. Detective Sgt. Kim Scanlan, of the Toronto police sex crimes unit, said to the AP that twenty-four Canadians were arrested and seven Canadian children rescued since late 2005. The US investigators declined to comment further as well as the UK officials because investigations are ongoing, and suspects are still being watched, and rounded up.
While all of the people arrested will get their fitting reward for their crimes, it is certain that Timothy David Martyn Cox will get his comeuppance for hosting the chat room ‘Kids the Light of Our Lives,’ the twenty-seven-year-old was arrested last September, on nine offences, relating to the Possession and Distribution of Indecent Images of Children. That means he will remain in prison until authorities determine he is no longer a threat to children, with luck that will be forever.
‘Kids the Light of Our Lives’ was an internet chat room dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children. Hundreds of members worldwide used it to trade a range of material, including photographs and videos of children being subjected to sexual abuse and serious sexual assault. Cox was identified after intelligence linking the chat room to the UK was passed to the CEOP by Canadian officials within the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) last August. The CEOP said that when Suffolk forensic teams examined Cox’s computer they found seventy-five thousand nine hundred sixty indecent and explicit images in addition to evidence that he had supplied eleven thousand four hundred ninety-one images to other site users.
Gordon Mackintosh, thirty-three, attempted to resurrect ‘Kids the Light of our Lives’ following Cox’s disappearance as host. The CEOP carried out extensive work to identify the person behind the usernames ‘silentblackheart and ‘lust4skoolgurls’. Alongside Hertfordshire Police, they arrested Mackintosh on January 9, 2007. CEOP officers, the Australian Federal Police, ICE (US Department of Homeland Security) and Toronto Police undertook twenty-four hour online surveillance to infiltrate the room for a second time and collate details of all the offenders attempting to trade material, a CEOP statement said. McIntosh’s computer was found to contain five thousand one hundred sixty-seven indecent and explicit images of children, in addition to three hundred ninety-two indecent movie files. He pleaded guilty to twenty-seven charges of making, possessing and distributing indecent images and movies. He awaits sentence. “Today’s verdict serves as a powerful warning to those using the Internet to facilitate the sexual exploitation of children. From the apparent ‘safety’ of his home, Cox spent hours each day planning, promoting and encouraging the abuse and exploitation of innocent young victims. In doing so he provided a service to hundreds of like minded individuals, enabling those with a sexual interest in children to share indecent images and discuss further plans for abuse. Any individual who thinks they carry out such horrific activities undetected is in for a very rude awakening. The belief that the Internet provides anonymity is unfounded and for Cox and Mackintosh it has already proved to be a costly misconception.” -- Jim Gamble, CEO at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and Chairman of the Virtual Global Taskforce.
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