International military led by a UK group say they close down the largest internet paedophile ring nonetheless discovered.
The universal forum had 70,000 supporters at its height, heading to 4,000 comprehension reports being sent to military opposite 30 countries.
The operation has so far identified 670 suspects and 230 abused children.
Detectives say 184 people have been arrested - 121 of them were in the UK. Some 60 young kids have been stable in the UK.
The three-year investigation, Operation Rescue, was led by investigators from the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop).
Speaking at a headlines discussion at The Hague in the Netherlands, investigators mentioned the network hid at the back a authorised online forum that operated out of the nation - but its members came from around the world.
Along with the Netherlands and the UK, suspects have been identified in Australia, Italy, Canada, New Zealand and Thailand.
The members of the network went in to a in isolation channel, boylover.net, and then used its secret systems to share drive-in theatre and images of abused children, mentioned Rob Wainwright, executive of European military agency Europol.
However, youngster abuse investigators, inclusive a group from Ceop, had already infiltrated the network and were posing as paedophiles to accumulate intelligence.
In the UK, the 240 suspects add military officers, teachers and a karate teacher. One of the suspects in the UK is a woman.
To date, 33 have been convicted, inclusive John McMurdo, a scout personality from Plymouth. Another forum user was Stephen Palmer, 54, of Birkenhead, who common abuse images with contacts in the US. A third man, 46-year-old Colin Hoey Brown of Bromsgrove, was locked up for creation and distributing roughly 1,000 images.
Peter Davies, head of Ceop, said: "The scale and success of Operation Rescue has damaged new ground.
"Not usually is it a of the largest operations of its type to date - and the greatest operation you have led - it moreover demonstrates the effect of general law coercion agencies working together with a singular objective, to guarantee young kids and bring offenders to justice.
"While these offenders felt unknown in a few way since they were using the internet to communicate, the technology was obviously being used against them.
"Everything they did online, everybody they talked to or anything they common could and was tracked by subsequent to the digital footprint."
Operation Rescue began when Ceop and colleagues in the Australian Federal Police not together identified the site as a key online meeting place for abusers.
The two forces deployed officers to penetrate the site and to pick out the members who were posing the many danger to children.
One of the early breakthroughs in the scrutiny was the detain of 4 suspects in Thailand in 2008. Two of the men were British.
In Mar of the same year, Ceop identified the owners of the site and the place of its server in the Netherlands. The owners of the server is right away co-operating with Dutch police.
Mr Wainwright said: "I am unapproachable of the well-developed work of our experts in assisting military authorities around the world to record these ground-breaking results.
"The defence of so many exposed young kids is quite rewarding and demonstrates the undertaking of our agency to make Europe a safer place for its citizens.
"I moreover pay in memory to the applicable authorities in Europe and elsewhere for their functional work in tracking down the suspected criminals and their victims."
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