Police in several countries have arrested 184 alleged members of an online paedophile ring and rescued 230 children in "the biggest case of its kind", Europol said on Wednesday. More arrests were expected in the round up, which began three years ago and targeted an online network that was on a server based in the Netherlands and had almost 70,000 members world-wide at its height, officials said.
"Six-hundred-and-seventy suspects have been identified, 184 arrests have already been made and 230 children, the victims of these terrible crimes, have been identified and rescued from further harm," the policing agency's director Rob Wainwright told journalists.
"We expect these numbers to rise further," he said, adding: "This is already the biggest case of its kind we have ever seen." Europol said the probe, dubbed Operation Rescue, started three years ago. The server involved had since been taken down and its operator appeared in a Dutch court on Tuesday. The suspects were members of an online forum called boylover.net that promoted sex between adults and young boys, the policing agency said.ly".
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