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90 to face court over porn bust

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AT least 90 people will face court as a result of one of Australia’s largest investigations into child pornography.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) warned today there would be more arrests following the six-month Operation Centurion, which is part of a wider Interpol investigation involving 170 countries.

So far 90 people have been arrested or summonsed in Australia - three in the ACT, 23 in NSW, 41 in Queensland, four in South Australia, one in Tasmania, 17 in Victoria and one in Western Australia.

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The investigation was part of an international Interpol-led investigation involving 170 countries.

It was triggered after a hacker posted 99 child porn images on a European website, which attracted 12 million hits from 150,000 computer users in just 76 hours.

Of those, 2883 computer IP addresses were traced back to Australia, and the AFP has identified all of them.

So somebody hacks a website, and within three days just about every pervert on the planet knows about and visits that site? How did information about the hacked site get spread that quickly and widely in a community that is sure to be trying to hide? Those people don’t all know each other, surely? Something sounds very fishy about all this…


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One Response to “90 to face court over porn bust”

  1. Want to remain annonamous for GOOD REASON Says:
    August 24th, 2008 at 19:54

    I have personally been the victim of a Malicious Prosecution by the AFP over allegedly downloading illegal material!

    The illegal material they accused me of downloading wasn’t found - they instead tried to prosecute me on the basis of a video file of a 34 year old porn star!!!! There was NO investigation into WHY this was so, WHY the alleged files they say were downloaded were NOT on my computer or in my house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    There was NO PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE.

    There was NO appology when the Magistrate dismissed the charges (It took all of approximately 30 minutes of wasting the court’s time.

    There was NO appology for screwing up my entire life. There was NO appology for being assaulted by an AFP “appointee” during the search.

    There was NO appology for accusing me of something I absolutely abhore. There was NO investigation into other possible explanations as to why my ISP was implicated such as hacking or “hot-spotting”, there was NO investigation to verify that I WASN’T EVEN AT HOME when this stuff was allegedly downloaded as verified by my employer!

    There was NO appology for illegally keeping my equipment after it was cleared. There was NO appology for NOT taking my complaint from the AFP officer who I complained to about the assault (a mandated requirement of the Complaints - Aust Federal Police Act 1981). There was NO appology for my lost income to date (I have not worked since the false allegation and illegal arrest and detention 10 months ago.

    There was NO PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE!!! There was NO appology for serious violations of my basic Human Rights.

    There was NO appology for making a notification to Child Safety who promptly found me guilty 9 months BEFORE THE COMMITTAL HEARING dismissed the charges - and Child Safety banned me from seeing my son.

    There was NO appology for NAMING AND SHAMING ME well before the charges were dismissed (POLICE ACTING AS JUDGE AND JURY). There has been NO appology for making me so depressed I thought about taking my life at least 4 times during the 10 MONTH ORDEAL (the only thing that kept me going was that I knew I was innocent).

    There was NO appology for the INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT OF THE AFP not even wanting to talk to me regarding these serious breaches of conduct (SOMETHING SERIOUSLY STINKS IN THE AFP)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was NO appology for the Federal Ombudsman NOT having the teeth or resources to look at these matters of serious misconduct.

    There was NO appology when it came out in court that there WAS NO BASIS TO ARREST ME IN THE FIRST PLACE LET ALONE CHARGE AND PROSECUTE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    THERE NEEDS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT BODY THAT INVESTIGATES THE INVESTIGATORS, WITH POWER TO DO ANYTHING THEY NEED TO CATCH OUT THE CORRUPT COPS WE HAVE.

    In my case, I coined the phrase that “It might be that all it takes is a few good men to do nothing for evil to flourish, but it only takes one or two good men to take things too far for INJUSTICE TO FLOURISH”

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