Mexico Breaks up Child Porn Ring, Including Priest, AFP, April 22, 2009

Mexico Breaks up Child Porn Ring, Including Priest

AFP
April 22, 2009

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MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Mexican police arrested seven people, including a Roman Catholic Priest, allegedly involved in a child porn ring that distributed 100,000 pictures and videos of children from around the world, the Attorney General's office has said.

"A priest from Xalapa, Veracruz (eastern Mexico), was among those detained, as well as an IT worker from the foreign ministry," a statement said on Wednesday.

Mexican police have arrested seven people, including a Roman Catholic Priest, allegedly involved in a child porn ring

Mexican authorities found files containing a large number of explicit sex scenes between adults and children up to 10 years of age at the ministry worker's house, the statement said.

An inquiry which began in March led to the discovery of suspected members of the network throughout Mexico, it added.

Authorities said that the children appeared to be of different nationalities.

One of the suspects had confessed to acts of "rape and sexual abuse," the statement said.

The images had been viewed in Brazil, Spain, Bulgaria, Russia, the United States and Argentina, said Gustavo Caballero from the police department's cybercrime unit.