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You know It gets spooky. We might watch top gear today low-key. It's a very high chance because it's early right now So we might could fit that in here No lie We got to figure out which one we gonna watch though. All right, let's get into this man. Oh Wait, it's Monday. It's What else we might watch Glad and we might watch something else What's it called lads army? Maybe watch mad lads army Is that what it's called? We'll figure it out one of time cuz let's get into it more than 20 miners who were being abused by users of the site Have been rescued officials say they sees more than 250,000 videos are staggering with disturbing references to abuse of very young children and even Toddlers at a press conference official said it was one of the first time seeing crypto currency in trafficking child pornography Imagine this is on a dark web to something that's already used for a lot of illegal stuff But then y'all doing this on there like is it time that I guess y'all Because it's we again Guys, it's time to immediate. It's crazy Salute though. Hey Good morning, everyone. I'm Jesse Lu. I'm the US attorney for the District of Columbia Thank you all for being here for this very important announcement of significant actions to protect children from sexual exploitation I'm joined today by key partners in the federal government's fight against those who exploit the most vulnerable among us That's the Department of Justice announcing that they've just managed to shut down the dark web's largest child pornography site in October of 2019 that fact still rings true as I'm recording this video in 2023 337 pedophiles who produced uploaded and downloaded content from said site were arrested and some jailed as the result of an operation Carried out by the UK's National Crime Agency the IRS the Homeland Security the Korean National Police and the German Federal Criminal Police Although 337 arrests were made there were roughly 1.3 million users at the height of the website's popularity with 360,000 videos being downloaded and believe it or not in the words of the investigators themselves if it wasn't for the blockchain We wouldn't have even seen those 337 arrests could the investigation have gone a different way if not for the blockchain Oh, they said 1.2 million people Was partaking in this Close to 350 K down yo The world is a spooky place, man. Maybe but the tactics used in the months-long investigation. There's seven billion Who knows how many adults there are in this world? But y'all like y'all got y'all got the nerve He shouldn't relied heavily on it and so without the blockchain there would have been no case In spite of the fact that the Department of Justice eventually took down the largest child pornography site on the dog web in 2019 the origins of this case can be traced all the way back to 2008 so long one pause operation dark net July 24th 2008 Freedom hosting a specialist web hosting service emerges on the tour browser It offers a plethora of hidden services to only those who can navigate their way around the darkest side of the internet back in 2008 there wasn't many who could some notable so so you had to put in real effort like you had to really really be a try-hard It's what they say This is tour mail which allowed users to send and receive email Anomously to email addresses inside and outside the tour network hack BB a hidden internet forum Specializing in buying stolen credit cards skimming ATMs and hacking computers servers and accounts And then there was the hidden wiki this held a directory of links to other hidden websites within the tour browser Freedom hosting would eventually be home to half of all tour sites that were available at that time It began to attract many visitors for both the right and wrong reasons For example those who wanted to communicate in secret could do so But a wide range of criminals had a field day and the authorities couldn't do anything about it because to put it simply For a while they had no way of knowing anyone's true identity Although for years the web hosting service remained in the shadows of the dark web away from the majority of the general public That would all change in October of 2011 It has evolved into the catalyst behind free media free speech and global communication Since its inception the world wide web has become a prominent medium for individuals such as journalists and activists alike However, a great injustice lurks beneath the surface The fun infestation of a porrant animals have been growing Parasitically spreading like cancer and known to the world. It is consumed and victimized innocent children as well as adults The growing trade of child pornography has become a major problem While government organizations have put much effort into the dismantling of individuals and websites dedicated to this repulsive trade The providers of this content have grown frustrated and moved their trades into a much severe place known as the dark little network Dedicated only to the iniquities that are outcasted by the society who strive in Unfortunately, a potentially benevolent resource has been corrupted by these. Is this a real video or is this part of Like Abe Hanshaw's video that he created this part and sadistic abominations of the world We anonymous have an eternal duty to fight against the social injustices of this world When we came into this virtual realm We were disgusted with the content that was provisioned and readily available for the provided masses Many of us have lingering traumatic images of the material that these be the files were hiding on the dark knit Anonymous took a pledge to defend the defenseless and fight for the fallen We rallied an army called the Legion and armed ourselves with our Chris Hansen cannons We set up for the great hunt which has become operation dark net also known as Chris Hansen cannons are crazy Give me one That's tough to catch a predator We found that a majority of the dark net pedophiles were using a site called lileta city We demanded that the major provider of the host known as freedom hoosting rid their servers of such reprehensible materials Unfortunately to our horror the owner of freedom hoosting was the perpetrator for most of the pedophilic content We are now aware that this provider has over 100 gigabytes of content depicting children being sexually exploited for money in sick floors at any of the undermining sects that this world could take pleasure in While successful enough like you know is messed up, but then will you get to hearing the numbers behind how much How much like what do you need to say 100 gigabytes like once more to identify users and take down the hosting provider Of this unacceptable content the dark net is a vast sea of many providers However, we fully intend to make it uninhabitable for these disgusting degenerates to exist without the fear of prosecution or death This is our message our manifesto You may hold us to every last word for we will never turn a deaf earp on the screams of innocent children You know who you are and so do we We are an honor salute mess We are legion We do not forgive We do not forget expect us On the 14th of october 2011 a member of the anonymous hacking group had been browsing the hidden wiki when they noticed a section titled Hard candy a directory of child pornography links Disgusted by what they had just witnessed the hacker quickly worked their magic and removed all links from hard candy job complete Well, not exactly you see five minutes later an admin on hidden wiki edited all of the links back in and it was business as usual Upon further investigation the hacker noticed that 95% of the links listed on the hidden wiki shared a digital fingerprint With freedom hosting and when the hacker redirected their efforts They came to the conclusion that freedom hosting had been the home to the largest collection of child pornography on the internet Including the love zone a site where Richard huckle dubbed Britain's worst pedophile was an avid user on the hacker would reach out Richard huckle never heard of Richard huckle With a last name like huckle i'm not surprised not even a lie to you After freedom hostings unidentified owner to issue a warning to remove the content from their servers But they refused and so four hours later a bunch of anonymous hackers assembled from forum boards such as 4chan And they began to ddos attack freedom hosting rendering the service unusable However, within 24 hours of the attack freedom hostings owner was able to restore services via a backup in response Anonymous issued several more warnings, but the owner refused once again So a further ddos attack took place even after new security measures had been implemented Was this it then we're anonymous about to shut down the largest host of child pornography on the dark net well Yes, and no the fact that they're putting up such a fight to hit you see anonymous, but not anonymous but the their owner of freedom hosts is like A final statement stating that they managed to grab a total of 190 unique ip's and people trying to gain access to hard candy and elitist city But ultimately the sites would continue to run moving forward It's also unclear if any arrests were made as the result of the operation But it would be something that happened nine days earlier that really caught the media's attention in regards to this operation And therefore the general public were made aware of it at the height of the ddos attacks which prevented over 40 Not gonna lie. I ain't never heard of none of this Not this operation not none of not not a word of it Front child pornography websites from being accessed the one that stood out from the rest was lowlita city home to 100 gigabytes of child pornography images the ages of the children ranged anywhere from newborn all the way through to 17 What? Did I just say newborn? Year-old teens the content was being viewed Thousands of times a day on the 18th of october 2011 anonymous managed to hack into lowlita city Meaning they had access to all 1,500 users of the site Although their usernames were the only information to be leaked to the public anonymous stated that they had identified Many of the users and had asked law enforcement to reach out for details However, once again, it's unclear if any arrests were made as the result of this Some would label anonymous's operation a success others had called it a global advertisement for child pornography I'm almost positive if anonymous can get they real, you know, I'm saying a real information that I'm pretty sure they're Unrelenting they would they could go around and figure out where they worked And send what they've been doing to their bosses It make their lives very impossible See by july of 2013 hit them with the edp Just under two years on even though you could only gain access by invite freedom hosting hard candy Lolita city and others had all grown tenfold another 160 child exploitation websites would emerge over that same period But just as the sickening online communities were growing they'd be shut down temporarily all thanks to the fbi I say temporarily because sadly ladies and gentlemen Although it was the end of the road for freedom hosting the majority of the sites hosted would continue just elsewhere on the dark net They would have to have somebody doing this 24 7 Working and shutting down the dark web 24 7 Dublin, ireland, okay march 2019 I wish I would have had them The supreme court has cleared the way for the extradition of a man You know, it's crazy. I I seen this when it came out like the day it came out Like I didn't watch it, but I said it came across my timeline But I seen the thumbnail and I was like did I do like I had just recently watched one of these something like this and it was It kind of looked like the same person on the thumbnail So that's why I didn't do it until just now He's living the world's biggest facilitator of child abuse images 33 year old eric oan marques It was an address at mount joy square in dublin one is wanted by the u.s Authority for conspiring to distribute and to advertise child abuse images There was no stay on today's rulings, which means that he can be extradited immediately The country's highest court has now upheld the previous judgments of the high court and the court of appeal And eric oan marques has now exhausted all legal avenues. He has no time left There was no stay put on today's supreme court ruling And he can be extradited to the us to face child abuse charges immediately 10 years on from eric's arrest And the details about how the fbi managed to track him down Still remain a mystery the only reference we have eric's us indictment states that an investigation in 2013 found rick's us indictment How he built You know what let me just state that an investigation in 2013 found a key IP address linked to freedom hosting After eric's arrest the fbi took over freedom hosting and kept things running briefly before shutting down the whole operation Within that short period of time They secretly deployed a javascript file to the majority of the sites hosted on freedom hosting In simple terms the script exploited a bug within the tool browser which bypassed the ip anonymization feature Therefore collecting real-world ip addresses of users accessing child exploitation website This information was then sent to an fbi controlled server and officials Use the data to launch other investigations to track down other suspected paedophiles Although eric stated we do not give permission for any upload of any illegal files If you choose to do so anyway, we are not responsible for your actions I will not assist in any use of this server for illegal purposes. Sorry. I have to protect myself And I do not consent to the use of the freedom hosting server for any illegal activities If you do illegal activities on this server, I will not go to jail for you If my identity is compromised and i'm questioned Forced to cooperate to identify you. I will do it to ensure my freedom The fbi still held him accountable as did anonymous two years before for hosting child exploitation websites The latter going a step further claiming that eric himself had either a being the owner of lowlita city Or b had in some way been deeply connected with the site. Yeah, nah for sure for sure It's happening on your platform or whatever You're hosting it you involved 100% you giving people an avenue to do this eric's response to the fbi was that he was simply an innocent party Who hosted a range of different websites on the dark net the evidence doesn't suggest that eric had owned Lolita city But he most definitely wasn't the innocent party he came to be when garter officers raided his apartment in dublin island He made a dash for his computer in the hopes of turning it off Even though his pc at that point had been password locked for those of you who aren't aware When you turn your pc off it erases the information stored on the ram and eric was fully aware of this So he attempted to shut down his pc but officers Stopped him from doing so when the pc was forensically examined the data from the ram was pulled and although They'd never crack into the pc itself They had more than enough evidence to link him to freedom hosting It wasn't just that though You see the data showed that eric had been accessing a child pornography site that he hosted on freedom hosting 1534 times the site reporters say had categories such as jailbait Preteen toddlers Girls and boys each category contained numerous Like I like it's some mentally wrong but at the same time Life in jail to fix it videos of child sexual abuse another website He viewed which was once again hosted on freedom hosting had been visited 412 times according to the data on the ram from images pulled from said site 107 of them matched files on eric's ram. One of those was of an infant girl being abused eric was eventually charged with conspiracy to advertise and distribute child pornography on the dark net by Prosecutors over in maryland in the united states of america They called him the kingpin of child porn after the fbi estimated that 8.4 million images and videos had surfaced via freedom hosting It wasn't going to be an easy job securing a final sentence though because as you know, he resided in ireland It took six years for his extradition to finally be granted and on february 6th 2020 he finally pleaded guilty to the charges that were placed against him eric marquise was sentenced He pleaded out too. He ain't even fight So he probably got in a lesser sentence to 27 years in prison talk about it 27 still not even enough, but that's a lot followed by lifetime supervision upon release They're gonna get 27 years of man Well, the district court composed a sentence of 27 years followed by lifetime supervise release which is an important message to send to not only to eric marquise Who as you know was the largest facilitator of child pornography in the world But also in terms of general like that that having that title attached to your name is just with like Like what do you do at that point even when 27 years pass? You're gonna have to change your name still deterrence that sentence Sends a powerful message to those who are trading in child pornography or are contemplating Trading and child pornography mr. Marquez Essentially created a market for others to trade and promote Child pornography and he was creating the demand And the supply for a very dangerous and harmful trade to children throughout the world And it was important to get a sentence that not only Tells those out there that we will find you and hold you accountable for Trading and child pornography, but also to the victims to make sure they know That law enforcement here and overseas are committed to Finding the criminals who exploit them and then when we can seeking restitution for them That's a disgusting man It was one point something million users on all of them. Some why they while There's a dope woman out here. Like I It's the craziest name. Okay Open your folders and show the camera This was not the right commercial to put after that. Let's hurry up. Let's wait Skip There were many who watched anonymous Temporarily take down freedom hosting and Lolita city in real time on fortune One of those who would later go by the moniker looks wanted to help anonymous in their fight against pedophilia But had found himself on the side of those who he originally set out to attack The great irony was that he was led there by the very people who were trying to expose it as evil I discovered numerous forums that existed on the dark web before long I was hooked in looks his early days with online pedophiles He created a persona of an american pediatrician claiming to have had numerous sexual encounters with children As well as maintaining an ongoing sexual relationship with a specific six-year-old child The content he had consumed in his early days was far too tame though If you can even imagine that and so he struck up a plan to create his own website where more hardcore content could be posted With less moderation by early 2013 looked had created not just one dog net site Rather a few his name had ranked bells in online pedophile groups He was said to have been the go-to guy for anything pedophile related It even reached the point to where he was giving out advice to users on his sites Some of the advice included topics such as how to groom and sexually abuse young children How to ensure there were no signs of sexual penetration How to drug children so they would be awake during the abuse but would have no memory of it afterwards and how to kid I'm not even gonna lie watching this is giving me anxiety and I don't even get anxiety like I can't like this is I'm this has still got an hour left Snap kill and dispose of a child's body. He was everything nightmares were made of The decision would be made to house all of the websites under one banner with a few new additions as looks his website Started to grow in popularity Pido empire a one-stop shop for all things pedophilia Hosted by yours truly freedom hosting Most nights when I got home from work instead of sitting back and watching tv I bust out my laptop and got working on pedo empire Hopefully creating something which makes the community at least as smidgen better one of the most popular sites That was a part of his empire was pedo wiki at the height of its popularity It had over three million page views and contained over 1200 different articles Some of the sites on the empire required an invite from a trusted member to gain access As a member you would be allowed basic viewing privileges But you'd have to prove yourself to gain access to more premium areas For example, you'd have to share images or films that hadn't been previously uploaded to the dark net And trust me looked at his way of vetting such content On other sites if members wanted to stay active in a producers lounge They would have to show they were actively abusing children on a weekly basis or else they'd be kicked The never-before-seen footage would have to include children holding a sign with a unique identifier Such as the name of the site or a phrase created by love This is disgusting. I promise. This is the weirdest. This is the wildest stuff I ever heard So what he did was give people weirdos give people rewards For going out and doing this type of stuff In February of 2013 some users of the empire voiced their opinion that they wanted something more extreme They wanted more depravity more violence and looks well He delivered hurt to the core a site dedicated to her called pornography Hurt to the core was the first of its kind on the dark net a forum dedicated to videos images and discussion About the rape torture and even murder of young children at the height of its popularity It garnered 400,000 views per day although lux claimed he didn't necessarily like the content that was 400,000 a day Posted on hurt to the core. He believed that others did and so he hosted it in the name of freedom of speech Hurt to the core was split into different sections One of those sections had been split into different threads discussing different topics by july of 2013 23,000 posts were made talking about 2192 different topics which included how-to guides some of the most popular guides were as follows Kitty porn for dummies created by lux toddler child porn star How you like to make them scream sex tourism and prostitution where to find them sexy little kids and Advice and guides on how to get what you want from kitties Some of the most popular general topic threads were as follows three men and a baby butchered bitches Youngins bound crying rape need ideas for blackmailed girl aged 15 and beastiality Out of all of the empire lux was most active on hurt to the core And he wasn't just making guides for members to use. No, no, no He was giving out advice to some members about hurt core related topics Which does make you question if he actually was into the content that was being right Didn't he just say he wasn't into it? I mean if you hosting it you're into it I don't get used to one sight One member wanted advice about filming the abduction rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in russia Okay, good. So do you have a plan and this is not just a fantasy for you I have many contacts willing to purchase such a video It was never confirmed if the russian had gone through with the plan an american user wanted advice About producing and distributing the abuse of a seven-year-old girl who suffered with muscular dystrophy and was immute I work in the medical field and if you show me a picture of her wheelchair I bet I could track you down in a week. It's too dangerous to distribute as she's too recognizable However, you should make it for your own gratification At least, you know, she can't cry for help the user would then ask looks about releasing just the audio If you record audio then that can give a lot away, but it's good the fact she can't speak I don't think it's going to narrow it down As word began to spread about hurt to the core many law enforcement agencies and hacking groups had tried to gain access to the site But as you could only gain access by I ain't even got nothing to say man. I'm just gonna watch our rule. No one was able to enter However, hackers had indeed managed to enter hurt to the core in december of 2013 According to reports coming out of mexico one topic that was pointed out Was something the hackers discovered in a thread titled child sex and prostitution to sum up a user from mexico Stated that children as young as infants could be delivered by human traffickers to any hotel or home in any city or state For the rental price of four thousand us dollars And if they wanted to buy them it would set them back ten thousand us dollars speaking of his own experience He stated he paid more than 30 000 usd to buy three children two boys aged two and six years old. You know, it's crazy like Remember, I don't know if y'all seen but in the news they have found them hotels with tunnels and with tunnels underneath And a four-year-old girl to sexually abuse them at a ranch He owned in mexico adding he had to pay extra because all three died as a result of the sexual abuse He put them through with the information now in hand the hackers would reach out to the mexican national security council And the mexican federal police to tell them that children were potentially being trafficked around various pots of mexico And that they should check in with various orphanages to see if children were indeed going missing after being adopted on december 9th 2013 governor falstof elejo figarejo announced that he along with law enforcement agencies from across mexico Had launched an investigation to dismantle an organized pedophile network that had been operating out of morelia A city in the state of michoacan this network was said to have been posting and exchanging photos of under I'm just man. Listen. Where is the cartel when you need them? I ain't even gonna hold you I can't even hold my breath like this in mexico. Where's the cartel cartel should be x like They should be doing what they need to be doing out there to take care of this whatever this issue is Arranged children unhurt to the core the group had been exposed thanks to the work of the hackers What's never been confirmed though is whether this group had in fact been abducting children and selling them on as of september 2015 mexican news outlets reported that no arrests came as the result of the operation Are you interested in wholesaling or flipping abandon? I said no How none In early 2013 rumors began circulating on the dog near about a video titled daisy's destruction Depending on who was telling the story it would vary in regards to the content But one common theme was that it involved the torture of at least one young girl Many claimed it would go a step further and contained the murder of said girl with reports that some allegedly paid $10,000 to receive a copy it looked as if this movie daisy's destruction If it even existed wasn't going to be released anytime soon enters Lux lux set out on a mission to see if a the video was real and b if it was real Could he secure a copy for so lux started as a good guy, but was but was flipped So Into the into the top dog apparently right that's what they said about him, right? And so to release on her to the core He quickly discovered that daisy's destruction was in fact real and the sources who told him it was real Pointed lux in the direction of an online user called excite ago who claimed that they had a copy Excite ago would go on to explain that they were the owner of a company by the name of no limits fun A her called production company that mainly focused on young asian girls The user excite ago would turn out to be they're going through they got to make llc's and businesses and do this and do that and Like these are real life try hard weirdos You put in the maximum effort into this like don't do something productive Like you could probably cure cure any world-rebound disease But instead you doing this Eat a man by the name of peter scully for those of you who aren't familiar with peter scully back in 2011 he fled from his home country of australia and headed to the philippines after being involved in a property fraud scheme That fleeced more than 2.7 million dollars from 20 different investors After spending a while in the philippines peter would acquire himself two philippina girlfriends kame and alvarez and laizel Moghello castana and together they would approach parents in impoverished With offers of education and food for their children They would take the kids under their wing what the parents weren't aware of though Was that they were about to hand their children over to monsters The trio would give the children a false sense of security when first arriving at a property rented out by peter For example by offering them something to eat But the mask would eventually slip and the children would be subjected to days Months and even years of torture and rape Some of these instances would go on to be caught on camera and sold on peter's child pornography site No limits fun the most infamous of scully's video collection None other than daisy's destruction and multi-part video series that featured the rape and torture of three girls 11 year old cindy 12 year old lyza and daisy just 18 months old only lyza and daisy would go on to survive Although daisy continues to suffer with life-changing injuries both physically and mentally that meant then that cindy would die at the hands of her abusers When investigators finally located her body some three years after she was murdered They found her in a shallow grave beneath a house that peter scully had been renting She'd been forced to dig her own grave and was then strangled to death All of this was said to have been caught on camera according to authorities However, it's unclear if the murder was a feature on daisy's destruction With the video series going somewhat viral due to the nature of the content It quickly landed in the hands of dutch police who determined that it was shot in the philippines They then handed their evidence over to local authorities and their task force was opened to find the perpetrator Although they understood a white australian male was their key suspect It was hard to pinpoint exactly who it was as part of their operation in order to eliminate suspects How many white australian men is it in from in the philippines? Investigators went door to door for months to see if the interior of people's homes matched what was in daisy's destruction Ultimately law enforcement in the philippines wouldn't be able to locate the house They were looking for and all the police investigating were dead ends However, there'd be a break in the case just as it was going somewhat cold Two of peter's victims would come forward to police after recently escaping Car may let them go after she had felt sorry for them Over the course of five days the two victims had been subjected to multiple rounds of rape and torture They told police that they had attempted to escape within the first couple of days But were caught in the process and his punishment peter made the pair dig their own graves Who knows they could have been the next murder victims Peter's gully was eventually tracked down by law enforcement after going on the run for months When he was captured he was charged with 75 offenses that were split into two separate cases The first covered peter and car may they both faced one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape Bisexual assault of underage girls in 2018. I hope they figured more and more out and powed them higher and higher He's like there should be a special like they need to build a uh Put them in rikers island or something But these type people in the worst jail possible their pair were found guilty on all charges that were put against them They were both sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. That's good Well, I was just about to ask why is he smiling like What's funny the second covered peter and lyzel they both faced 69 counts of various offenses ranging from murder to the production and distribution Of child pornography on the dark web In 2022 the pair were found guilty on all the charges that were placed against them peter was handed 129 year prison sentence lyzel 126 I listened two thousand dollars Forever sentences looks would open up negotiations with peter scully in order to purchase the full video of daisy's destruction offering him $900 in bitcoin that was swiftly rejected I could sell this for up to $10,000 through private networks However, I could create more custom videos for hurt to the core if we enter a long-term business relationship But as looks his business model wasn't based on monetary gain rather content for content Negotiations broke down looks simply couldn't afford to pay for the video. And so the two went their separate ways Eventually looks managed to secure himself For sure extracts of daisy's destruction a total of 12 minutes worth of footage from other sources All were released on hurt to the core at once free to all members as revenge for the deal falling through Those nlf guys deserved me leaking daisy's destruction. They were whiny bitches With daisy's destruction now I think they got ops. They got business ops. They got they beefing about this The open looks had pushed the boundaries. He felt untouchable So much in fact he had this message for law enforcement when they eventually shut down freedom hosting Well, it looks like this empire hasn't fallen yet to any law enforcement agency whom may be reading this Fuck you. You cannot keep us down and every time you try we'll just get bigger and bigger So thanks for the publicity and leading more pedophiles to where you can't catch them to my fellow pedos It won't be long now until all of the major cp sites are back up and running in the meantime I suggest you spend your newfound free time by going out and fucking some kitties Although looks had felt untouchable for a while for some reason What did they do to him when they caught in June of 2014? He got spooked and felt law enforcement were closing in so he made the decision to send an email to the fbi's Cyber tip line offering up details about his users My name is lux and not only do I run the largest online suite of child pornography websites on tour But I also have knowledge about its users and their identities unrivaled by anyone out there I'm willing to hand over control of my empire including administration details for all sites under the pedo empire And server details as well as access to my emails on top of that I also have complete control over the large group of proven producers on any site I'm sure that access to this let alone everything else I'm offering you is merit for the conditions I will outline below the conditions immunity $50,000 in bitcoin and immunity across Bro really acts for $50,000 in bitcoin, which is A lot now it is but that's this is that didn't do they didn't do this their day restrictions To no surprise the fbi didn't budge. They weren't interested in giving into either demand It's clear. You're not taking my office seriously. It's not a game. These are real lives You're bargaining on it's now clear that if I want to fix this problem I need to do it myself I will get rid of these people because no one else will as you don't want to be a part of the solution I bid you farewell After contact was made with the fbi lux announced to his inner circle that he would be closing down pedo empire when the word spread some reports say that sickos reacted by posting child abuse images online in his honor on june 24th 2014 true to his word lux closed pedo empire As always all empires eventually fall and today is the day that it falls after years of running cp hidden services Today is the day that I walk away. There are personal issues which my close friends have been made aware of that have forced me To make this decision. I don't like awkward fair worlds. So goodbye regards lux If you try to look online for a reason as to why lux abruptly closed pedo empire You normally met with two answers the first So they never caught this guy lux It is a report claiming that he closed it due to quote personal issues like he stated in his goodbye note Those personal issues were later revealed as a suspected brain tumor. The other is See see you know what i'm saying that man above not gonna just let you do this He's gonna get you There is no answer. It states for some reason he closed it. It doesn't go any further than that But when you connect the dots a potential answer is there and it's far from a brain tumor It's actually connected to another dark net user by the name of ski If you haven't out Okay, so we okay. We're getting the facts here Ski aka shannon mccool was a prolific pedophile an owner of the love zone a dark net child abuse site Which we've spoke about earlier on in this video It had been home to over 50 000 members including the likes of richard huckle If you wanted to become a member you were required to upload hardcore child exploitation material as a right of initiation By 2014 the site had surpassed lily to city as the biggest child abuse site on the dark net If you've seen my video covering richard huckle Then you'll know that task force argos a branch of the queensland police in australia tackling online child abusers Brought the love zone down along with shannon and a few higher ups on the site in 2014 Their investigation into the love zone began as the result of an operation carried out by canadian police back in 2010 Initially, it didn't involve australian authorities Dubbed project spade law enforcement in toronto canada were looking into a man known as brian way a 42 year old who Had a production crew in different countries across eastern europe They had been filming what's called naturist videos of children In other words artistic films that featured nude boys aged between five and 12 years old There was a loophole though as they weren't of a quote sexual nature The police couldn't actually do anything about it an investigation would be opened into brian back in the early 2000s After police received complaints about the films his production crew were making but as you know Police couldn't do anything about it. So no charges were ever brought forward The movies would go on to be sold around the globe through brian's website as of films.com The business went on to make millions Customers would use their credit cards to make purchases at the height of its popularity over two million people visited the site In 2010 police investigated brian once again, although initially he wouldn't be a specific target You see police had began to investigate a person who is sharing extreme child pornography images online And when that person was identified it was none other than brian way Not only was he sharing extreme child pornography images online with other pedophiles Police soon discovered that some of his movies wouldn't be classed as legal artistic films either rather child pornography In may of 2011 police raided brian's warehouse Over to 45 terabytes of child exploitation material that had been produced by as of films Over the span of nearly a decade had been present to put that into perspective It took tens of police officers four full days. Yes, that's 24 hour days to remove the content from the warehouse brian would be charged and subsequently found guilty on 15 counts. It took them four days man said four days To get the stuff out there I don't understand like this is Like I feel like they they were they just naturally like this and then they Seen the business side of it. They was lucrative enough for them to be full-blown 100% All in business weirdos or Like how do you even like what is the like come on, bro? Counts of possessing publishing and selling videos of naked prepubescent and pubescent boys and was sentenced to 10 years in prison However, that sentence would be cut to just seven years and 10 months after he told the appeal judge that he was being abused in jail When the secret operation was announced So what? We told the appeal judge he was being abused in so what? That's karma To the public on november 14th 2013 It was clear that this wasn't just a canadian operation rather a worldwide one canadian police managed to track down 328 customers from around the world and so once they were identified they passed the information on to their international counterparts Good morning, everybody About project spade this morning in october 2010 undercover online officers with the child exploitation section of the Toronto police service I'ma keep it 100% If I was a police officer it would never be but if I if I was I could never do an undercover act thing like this I just couldn't Did this too much? Make contact with a male on the internet. I get it. You're doing a good thing. But like young children being sexually abused Through investigations the officers were able to trace the internet connection to a male living in Toronto The investigation revealed that this individual was running an exploitation movie Production and distribution company from an address within the city of Toronto This company operated a website known as www azofffilms.com Where customers from around the world could place orders to have movies said to them through the mail or through the internet Investigators believe many of these movies were consistent with the canadian criminal code definition of child pornography At this time the Toronto police service Saw the assistance of the united states postal inspection service as it appeared many of the movies were being exported into the united states The Toronto police service and the united states postal inspection service then began a joint investigation on may 1st 2011 after a seven month long investigation officers executed numerous search wards at various locations across the city of Toronto One of these search warrants was executed at the site of the purported business located in the west end of Toronto Officers spent four days inside this business cataloging the thousands of movies Computers and other media located during their search at this time Over 45 terabytes of information was seized from the business and to give you some perspective This is equivalent to a stack of paper as tall as 1500 z and towers See in towers, that's the one in dubai right the tallest building in the world 1500 of on the same date a search warrant was also executed at the residence of the owner operator of the business Mr. Brian way It is alleged that officers located hundreds of thousands of images and videos detailing Horrific sexual acts against very young children some of the worst that they have ever viewed Brian way 42 years. I could tell she's getting frustrated reading this. See that would be me I'll be too angry to read this age has been charged with a total of 24 offenses Uh-oh Brian way 42 years of age has been charged with a total of 24 offenses Including numerous child pornography proceeds of crime offenses and instructing a criminal organization We believe this is the first time in canada that anyone has been charged with being a part of a criminal organization in regards to child pornography It is alleged that mr. Way's company had revenues in excess of four million dollars during the years. He was operating It is also alleged that mr. Way paid people to have children filmed in eastern european countries in order to produce some of the Movies that he would sell online these producers of the child Exploitation movies which were sold exclusively through azov films have all been convicted in their respective countries With the assistant of the toronto police services technical technological text section Officer, I don't find it funny. I get it. You miss you can't say a word, but You know I'm saying I there's not I'm not laughing in that situation We're able to recreate the white the smile of your face customer database Used by azov films to distribute the material around the world Child exploitation officers with the assistance from the members of the Ontario provincial strategy to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation on the internet Then spent months analyzing all the seized material Determining who the customers were Information was then sent through the rcmp's national child exploitation coordination center and interpol to over 50 countries This investigation was dubbed project spade and success has been extraordinary to date The project as a whole has saved 386 children from sexual abuse worldwide. This alone is spectacular One child's life save is amazing 386 amazing, but I'm sure Furthermore, it's a lot going on out here, man That's what I'm saying, man Don't be that parent. That's too lenient I'm telling you do not be that parent that is too lenient in 2023 and this in today's age I'm not that parent Don't even look at my daughter for too long or I'm I'm questioning you. What are you looking at? Okay, look that way that's enough my dude As of this morning, that's me. I'm here on up sweden Contacted us and advised us that they arrested seven more people for this project So 348 and believe you me. I'm checking women and men the same way. Don't look at my daughter too long Don't be play play play too much like We don't know you Even if we know you I don't trust you In arrest worldwide as part of the investigation They include 50 in ontario 58 in the rest of canada 76 in the united states And 164 internationally of concern to the investigators was the number of people that had close contact with children The arrests included 40 school teachers This is why you got talk to your kids, man Talk to your kids make sure they know right and wrong make sure they know Because i'm for sure that my mother ain't no nine doctors and nurses 32 people who volunteered with children six law enforcement personnel nine pastors or priests and three foster parents Well an example of uh one of the services conducted in canada Search warrant was executed at a retired school teachers residence. He had over 350 000 images and over 9 000 videos of child sexual sexual abuse Some of these images were of children known to him and he was also charged with sexually abusing a young child relative We worked with several international law enforcement agencies during this project Australian federal police who are here today Spanish national police here today special investigations unit for the investigation of trafficking in mexico also here today Queensland police service task force argos south african police service telling you Like i i had i'm telling you there was this girl in my high school This was june solve more year i think solve more year between your year my junior year So yes, we're we are children still and there was a security because she used to always wear like You know when the times was in the little tube top with the little jeans skirt Is she it was an officer Like literally i seen him like she was going up the stairs and i seen him running To go look up the stairs while she was like at the time i was just like Well He's weird But now it's like yo, that's yeah, he's a he's one of them And i might go see if he's still working at the school because i'm telling i'm telling for sure Hong Kong police service Norwegian police service garda ireland police service national police force of greece and royal gibraltar police The success of this joint project with the united states postal inspection service along with all our international partners And other agencies you see here today confirms that when we work together regardless of the borders That divide us we can successfully track down those who not only pray on our most vulnerable But also profit from it. I would like to thank everyone involved and commend them for their hard working commitment to this project I would also like to acknowledge cyber tip dot ca who is present also present with us today Cyber tip dot ca is canada's tip line to report the online sexual exploitation of children They received numerous tips regarding mr. Wei's website and forwarded them to us assisting us in detecting his website. Thank you So this is where task force augus comes into play when they got intel that some australians had been purchasing child Exploitation movies from brian way. They set out on making multiple arrests There was one arrest in particular though that would open a pandora's box When task force augus arrested this particular person who's been named as mr. Smith and seized his computer They noticed that he encrypted certain parts of it However, he made the thankful mistake of leaving all of his dark web login details on an unencrypted note The login details would lead police down a dark net rabbit hole and ultimately led them to the love zone It was uncharted territory Mr. Smith was a vip member Meaning he'd been uploading at least four gigabytes of preteen hard-core child abuse content to the site every 30 days He had to keep this up or he would have his vip status stripped from him When police got into the love zone, they realized they only had a few weeks at best to stay on the site So task force that's one of the weirdest things. Yeah, like that's weird Like you had there was a reward point system for being a vip member You had to do this in order to be vip and people was vip They was really vip so they was out here committing crime and And you know taking to kids innocence and doing all of this and that like that's that's weird Anybody running these sites and having those type of rewards you need life in prison. You need to send them to texas or texas Task force argos had to approach a judge in order to get approved for something That's called a controlled operation in other words They were asking the judge for the go-ahead to legally be allowed to possess and distribute child exploitation material In order to stay on the website The bigger picture was to bring down as many predators as they could The judge would approve the operation and it proved successful in a nutshell the operation consisted of police Uploading content in order to keep their vip status Meaning they could keep an eye on everyone including the owner ski even though a cova operation was underway It would be good old-fashioned detective work that was finally a mask ski You see police noticed a pattern in the way ski greeted the users in the vip section of the love zone He used the phrase hires and although the general consensus is that this phrase is used by females Police knew they were dealing with the man because ski was actively producing fresh child abuse material He would be raping different children seven to be exact. They also knew That ski was an australian because he made victims hold a piece of paper with the word Aussie written on it while they were being raped Police had to act quick and so task force argos team member Paul Griffiths a victim identification specialist punched in the phrase hires on google 450,000 results were returned but to pull surprise within the first few pages The phrase hires had been used by a man on an australian forum board about trucks He was asking for advice about raising the suspension to his vw u to Litty and had made the mistake of leaving his license plate there when police searched the license plate up It was registered to a man by the name of Shannon mccool police were now confident enough that they had finally caught ski So they made their move and to no surprise they captured the right man Good morning, everyone. David waterford waterford from families essay And I will brief you about an alleged offender who appeared before the adelaide magnestrates court on the 10th of june this year And he remains in custody I wasn't muted for that long, right? I was just just the last just the last portion y'all seen was muted, right? I said that guy that was saying hiya Did y'all hear me say that part? Hiya, I said I don't want to hear the word no more just say hello to me I said a lot of people in the uk be saying hiya to me and I understand that that's the lingo but And then I was saying um that guy ski That's the dude that I had um That I just did a reaction to him when this video came out and I was like, uh, he's on a thumbnail It's probably the same video, but this is not the same video today This offender was employed within families essay in a role caring for young children at the time of this offending Lucky if I wasn't on live, I would have probably been muted for a lot longer. That's tough You'll appreciate that the information we can provide you is limited because of the ongoing police investigation That is being conducted into this serious criminal offence I remind everyone that there is a court suppression order in place As well as the usual operation of the evidence act which prohibits the publication of certain information In proceedings for sexual offence On the 6th of june this year special crimes investigation branch investigators received information Concerning the dissemination of child exploitation material Due to the serious nature of that information provided at this time Investigators searched the domestic premises in the metropolitan area of adelaide on the 9th of june As a direct result of that search Investigators arrested a male adult who is charged with seven counts of unlawful sexual intercourse With young children in his care He is also charged with the production possession and dissemination of child exploitation material At the time of entering the premises police were not aware of any contact offending between the alleged offender and the child victims The focus of the investigation up until that time related to the possession and dissemination of child exploitation material At the time of the arrest police became aware of alleged contact offending between the alleged offender and the children This evidence led to seven charges of an unlawful sexual intercourse When these seven charges were laid on the 10th of june Investigators were not aware of the identities of the seven victims We were not aware of the location of the offences nor were we aware of the time frame of that offending Since that time specialist sex crime investigators have been working closely with our computer specialists in attempt to identify the young victims This analysis has been tireless and has involved the examination of over 100 000 steel photographs and 600 video files containing child exploitation material This part of the investigation is not complete and it still has a long way to go before it can be completed Late on wednesday of last week with the assistance of families SA The investigators identified seven victims The victim identification process has been slow and very tedious As it is involved comparing the images of the child victims Contained within the child exploitation material against documentary material provided to us by families SA This process has been made even more problematic as some of the child exploitation images were partial images only Since the alleged offenders arrest the focus of this investigation has been the identification of the victims And that remains today It is important to identify the victims so that appropriate counselling and medical support can be provided to these victims their parents or guardians Investigators and families SA are now in the process of informing the parents of the seven children Of the circumstances of the alleged offenses and the identity of the alleged offender Full support from police families SA and the child protection services will be will be provided to the parents and guardians of these children This investigation has been a priority for the police and will remain a priority Man if these charges carry the same weight as like Like drug charges Because right now I feel like these people just running wild Doing whatever because the charges Not what they supposed to be most of the time We still have a significant amount of computer analysis to be conducted With a clear objective to identify all victims of that and something like this. There's a whole rink in the whole Empire and this and that like they charge them crazy They do want to do appropriate amount of charge and I don't want to see no charge on this screen lower than 20 years I don't care if you even looked at a picture. You need 20 years This abuse Oh god This investigation is being led by Saipo and will continue Continue until we have identified all possible offenses and the identity of any further possible victims Due to the complexity and the enormity of the data to be analyzed This investigation may take many months before it is completed But rest assured our investigation will remain victim focused This this investigation can be best described as being horrific It is horrific for the young victims And their families And it is deeply disturbing for the police who are required to view these images I now pass them to david I got said I could never be the police officer. That's a few of them images. That's tough He almost should get charged as well. I know you're doing a job. But listen, hey, um What was I gonna say What was I gonna know I was gonna say something Oh, yeah, man, you got to look at the ptsd factor and all of this as well These children is literally scarred for life for life. It's it's for life They're gonna be coming adults and they're gonna have like hyper drives like hyper sex drives Like there's gonna be a lot going on Like or they can just shut themselves out from the world. That could be Psychologically some stuff could be like it's gonna be wild And I just hope throughout their entire lives they can get the help that they need Shannon mccool had been a government-approved social look at this guy There's no facial hair This is a red flag immediately. He's been a government-approved. What who care work to dive it Shannon mccool had been a government-approved social care worker looking after vulnerable children Some who had previously been sexually abused many complaints had been made about him in the past about his Inappropriate behavior towards children, but ultimately those complaints were swept under the rug for three years He went on to sexually abuse seven children while he was taking care of them as a government-approved social care worker One of the victims had been a young disabled boy and another an 18-month-old toddler All are thought to have been under the age of 12 That's a fact in the comments. They say in the chat. She said uh, if you destroy a life a child's life then you Then the person should be doing life in jail 25 years solid solidarity solidarity I ain't gonna say the last part, but I'll let y'all read it district court south australia august 2015 this this timeline started this timeline started in 2008 Victims have cheered in court as families essay carer Shannon mccool was jailed for three decades for inflicting vile sexual abuse on already troubled children McCool who was also the kingpin of a global child porn? No, it's crazy already troubled killed children like What was bro's thought process? Not even bro. What was dude thought process? Well network was described by the judge as a worldwide evil like he'd never seen before Shannon mccool needs he's definitely evil because he got a job with like he had a job That gave him all the access that he ever needed. He sought out for this job type like he went to college Got a degree for this specific reason like he's been like this for his whole life He was like i'm gonna grow up and be like this continued it like Protection from other inmates in jail. I'm not even I might sign bogus when I say this and I know it's a double-edged sword like it could go both ways man and female but When I see man working with children, I I I'm very skeptical of it. I'm no offense. No offense But this is why like like y'all gotta understand like Like I'd be like uh That'd be red flag for me. That's me personally man working for children with the children here volunteer jobs that are Required for you to be around children and you're not a teenager like and you're a grown man volunteering to be around kids Like that for me I don't know it just do something wrong to do something in my brain where i'm like, I don't trust the situation abused were denied that right under his care Instead he stole their innocence in the most sickening of ways and he'll now pay with the next 35 years of his life I've got no remorse for him at all. No I hope that he gets what he deserves McCool cried as judge paul rice described in harrowing detail the repulsive crime he cried for Is inflicted on seven children the former family? See i'm there Police essay carer was trusted to look after them in a government run residential facility But when one of the state's heaviest sentences was imposed on him the courtroom erupted into applause It's over in one part of it's over and now it's I can deal with our family trauma McCool's victims were as young as 18 months. Some were disabled all were vulnerable It's disgusting. It's absolutely disgusting. But who baby is he holding? McCool uploaded hundreds of thousands of videos and images to his depraved website Which fed an international market of more than a thousand pedophiles as website CEO McCool boasted and encouraged others to post their own sickening material It was horrible to hear It I can't understand anyone connect that way nor could judge rice in fact He struggled with the gravity of McCool's insidious behavior saying no case has ever come close Yours is a worldwide evil well beyond my judicial experience Some people may describe your crimes as sick, but I prefer evil and depraved. You have no moral compass Very evil. Like just just look at how it's laid out Bro as a child grew up went to college Specifically to get this type of job because this is already fermenting in him He went to college worked with children at probably as a As a 18 19 year old went to college. I gotta be closer. I gotta I gotta You feel you get what I'm saying like It's premeditated from age fifth from age 17 and then you got a job with deprive like like You got that specific job with those children who are already at risk Targeted them. I'm talking 18 months to however old they said Disabilities and all like it's been emotional the whole time, but this time it was just yeah. Wow 33 year old McCool will be 61 before he has any chance of parole The judge doubtful the pedophile can ever change his ways What is plain is that the impact on these children is not in the past It is immediate ongoing and unfolding as they grow up and I'm hoping the same thing I said That my grandson will never lay eyes on him again Shannon mccall's 35 year prison sentence was reduced to 28 in april He agreed to help Danish authorities take down other addonans of the He got seven years off of that. I mean, okay With ski now in police custody It was time for task force august to take over the love zone and bring down other members One of those none other than looks exactly two weeks after Shannon mccall had been arrested Lux would go on to announce that he was closing his pedo empire down Somewhere along the line did looks and ski have a secret code that would pull the plug on everything If either suspected that police had overtaken their accounts For example, if looks said a certain phrase to ski ski would have to give a certain answer Or maybe looks just had a hunch that something was off and decided to delete every trace of his online activity It wouldn't be too hard to suggest either one was true because reporters say that many higher rocks within the love zone noticed that ski now operated by law enforcement had started to speak and act differently None of that would matter though because what looks didn't realize was that even though he had ended his pedo empire The police had connected it to his home address Little is known about the operation and how law enforcement managed to make the connection All we know is that it was discovered after they had taken it don't even matter. It was the connection was made Let's go get them over the love zone August 26 2014 Police are about to swoop on a house in Melbourne, Australia They were about to come face to face with the most hated men on the dark net To the police's understanding the property was owned by a white working class male in his 50s A mechanic who lived there with his wife son and daughter They thought for sure that he was looks but as police began to tell the house apart Looking for the computer that hosted one of the most disgusting sites on the dark web They instantly knew it wasn't the father because he had no idea Of how to even operate a computer. Their focus soon turned to the son Matthew David Graham 22 year old Matthew David Graham an nanotech student with no social life Like to spend his days indoors playing games such as world of warcraft That was his form of social interaction in his life away from I'm not gonna lie, man. I just heard a lot of red flags. Like these are these be red I'm letting y'all know how I be thinking like when I hear this stuff or when I see people that do this This right here. Hold on. Matthew David Graham 22 year old Matthew David Graham a nanotech Nanotech student with no social life. No social life. If like to spend his days indoors Like to spend his days indoors playing games such as world of warcraft world of warcraft That was his form of Full red flags for me, man Now, no, you could be doing these things definitely And be innocent, but don't just know Me personally I'm looking Because it's something about you that we don't know Clearly of social interaction. I'm not saying everybody's like this. That's not what I'm saying at all youtube, but I'm saying in my day-to-day life When I do when I see these things in people I'll be like man. Hey In his life away from a computer screen, you either want to like I ain't gonna say you either one or two things But like two one of two things comes to mind When I hear that And this one is what this video is about and other one is Something just as bad He seemed like an average university student However, as you know, he was hiding a dark secret at the age of 18 He began exploring child exploitation websites on the dark web over the span of roughly three years He created the most horrific child abuse websites at his parent's home They were none the wiser when police raided matthew's house on that morning in august of 2014 It's crazy. His parents just like don't even Like how did they can't even defend their son? Like like no, no, that's my son. I love him. Like no, I don't even you're disowned Get out or you're gonna get out. You're going to jail. So so Did asked him to you know how parents be like, oh, that's my son. I'm gonna be with him in jail Like he's in jail like I gotta like are they and still contact with the man unlock his laptop and pc But he refused however, he would hand over his phone and passcode for it An initial search of the phone brought up nothing But three hurt core related images would emerge after detectives took a deep dive into the device's cache As the result of this find matthew would initially be arrested and charged for possessing child abuse material And failing to hand over his passcodes No further charges were added at that time though because police had no evidence All they had was the lead that led to the address Matthew's pc and laptop would be shipped off to europol in germany and the fbi in america to see if they could get into them They already knew matthew graham was looks but they needed the data from the devices as they had stored the evidence They needed for a while both struggled but eventually the fbi would find their way inside and there was the evidence They were searching for australian detectives would go on to give matthew two options upon discovery of the findings Either a plead guilty in australia and hand over the passcode to the other device or b face a potential extradition to america I guarantee you we handed over that passcode boy. You don't want to go to america We do not wonder about that american prison system I guarantee you he pled guilty and he gave that pass order where he had been facing separate charges He settled for the former. Yeah, I guess I wanted to be part of something And so I made it up the sexualization was never anything I was interested in It was the power within the pedophile community On the 30th Oh, he was a pedo itself the july 2015 just under a year after his arrest Matthew is charged with 88 offenses which covered a wide range of crimes But by the time he was sentenced in march if power is a strange drug, then like He was the top dog in that community that is a power like he's addicted to power Strange weird type stuff, but 2016 He was only sentenced for 13 of the original 88 after he struck up a deal with the prosecution those 13 charges included crimes such as hosting and distributing child exploitation material Encouraging the kidnapped rape and murder of the five-year-old russian girl and encouraging the rape of the seven-year-old disabled girl in america During matthew's sentence in hearing the judge presiding over the case was extremely hesitant about viewing some of the material That was hosted on hurt to the core That the judge needed to watch at least small clips of daisy's destruction without audio to get an idea of the Horrific content that matthew had allowed on the site that way it would help the judge with what sentence to hand down The judge agreed How any human can view that impassively the infant was being tortured actual physical torture an extremely trusting Vomitable child who begins smiling wearing a nappy and ends a wailing physical wreck I've seen some shocking things over the journey of my career and i've never seen anything like that After the viewing the judge was said to have appeared pale and looked disorientated On the 17th of march 2016 matthew david graham was handed a 15 and a half year prison My bad. I said the yeah, I know y'all can hear that in the background that beating on the door like somebody's doing construction That's why it's muted, but um I said the way the judge described it Yeah, I don't know like it makes me sad. I've said I don't know if it makes me sad or it makes me angry Which it really makes me both Prison sentence with the minimum term of 10 years I'm gonna share with you. He got what exactly how all those He got a life sentence with a minimum term of 10 years. Yo 16 matthew david graham was re-intated on the 17th of march 2016 matthew david graham was handed a 15 and a half year prison sentence with the minimum term Of 10 years That's just that's one of the most disappointing sentences that I've heard today in this in this in this one 10 years. He good 15 years. He's definitely out. So 10 years. He's gonna be on good behavior. He's gonna be He was considered the worst administrator of some of the worst websites in the world at the time so He should get more time. He made it possible He and he like promoted like what was that we knew who the user was we just had to make the connection to That lux was matthew graham When I first saw him on the day that we served the warrant I was surprised by his confidence that he was quite calm In that environment in his mind. I can't imagine how that would have been going him thinking have they got me Um because obviously there's a bit of bluff What we've got what we don't have Not all their cards are played at the time the level of and the type of content that he was dealing with was It was considered the worst in the world by fbi by urepol. It was Hard and got a 15 year sentence You hear what she's saying right now now The worst in the world and got 15 years Core hurt core material so torture and abuse of babies Mainly through to I think about 12 He was surprising when it got to the interview how candid in an opening was to talk about that level of depravity that it didn't Didn't flinch did it just rolled off his tongue what he was talking about It was staggering to think that The you know the fbi and urepol were tracing lux. Who is he where is he and Long behold he's here And he's a 21 year old Lux in some way stands out and in some ways just like um the other dark net pedophiles that I spoke to A lot of people I know ask why would someone like this speak to a member of the media And I think that one of the ways that he's just like the other people In this community is that He needs someone to speak to he's still a human being and this is a secret that they keep And um they saw me as someone who they could safely speak to Um and so you could get that sense from him the same way you could get that sense from the other pedophiles in the dark net He was different. I think in that he was Singularly hated by other pedophiles. Um, I hadn't met too many other people who even like entire Communities of other pedophiles really really despised Lux was hated in the pedophile community because he promoted hurt core, which is um a genre within a genre Right, it's a genre of trial pornography in which the idea is that the kid is getting hurt and hit and abused beyond Oh, what the foot the foot what? Okay Entire Communities are hate him also because he's promoting hurt You're a You're destroying a child's life. You're hurting them too Well, I don't see no difference in neither one of y'all y'all all the same Not y'all. I'm saying these these these the entitlement of They they that I was all the same I understand that you're doing worse, but What's worseer than worse? You already at the top Uh beyond the normal level of abuse of child pornography um and That is something that a Not insignificant amount of people enjoy but that even more other pedophiles hate um the it it's funny to call them that but the mainstream pedophiles Um, basically think of this as abhorrent because as part of their the justification of their um actions, uh, they see themselves as part of child love they see themselves as Doing what's right for the child what the child wants and While that is it uh requires its own twisted sense of justification. Um, it's another level of I can't believe what i'm hearing I know he's just telling the story is how he hears it out the mouth, but that's why They really out there justifying the actions like that It's another twist to say that the kid wants to be hit Um, they're you know, there is no twist the the the people who enjoy hurt core for the most part get off on the fact that the kids are not enjoying it And that is too even most pedophiles Really abhorrent There's more first off I fully accept this offer may not be for everyone so feel free to say no, but my offer is as follows I would be interested in requesting photographs from you of yourself Either a topless or in the nude in exchange for this I would be willing to pay between 300 to 800 pounds. It's a bit of a background i.e Why is this perv asking me for these pictures? I certainly wouldn't go as far as to call myself an artist But I love to draw mostly in charcoal and the images I would ask you to produce would be the sort of thing That most inspires me absolutely nobody besides myself would ever see them Let me know if this is something of interest for you. Thank you for taking your time to read this Was an email sent out by a person called liz to various people who listed services such as babysitting and dog walking on gumtree A classified ads website the people who listed were looking to earn a bit of cash on the side A lot of the time it had been children in their early teens So when the offer of quick money was there to help someone with an art piece They jumped at the offer what they didn't know though was that once those images were sent They'd be sucked into a blackmail scheme if they didn't continue to send images that got more degrading as time went on Liz would threaten to leak what material they had to people who knew of the victim Whoever this Liz character was did their due diligence in order to keep the blackmail scheme going After targeting quite literally tens of children throughout 2012 and 2013 It was no surprise that police were fully aware of who Liz was But the police had no way of figuring out Liz's true identity because Liz had used different means to hide any leads going back to them In other words, they were a ghost However, it wouldn't be too long before detectives in the united kingdom connected Liz to a dark net site by the name of Hurt to the core Let's rewind earlier on in the video We were discussing Hurt to the core and some of the popular threads it contained one of those was titled need ideas for blackmailed Go aged 15 The FBI would figure out that the person behind the thread in the garden had been from the uk And so they alerted their uk counterparts the national crime agency to give them a heads up about the discovery Some point after this notification a 15 year old girl who fell victim to Liz's gumtree blackmail scheme came forward to police And after doing a cross-reference in the database It was clear to detectives that the girl who had just came forward was the 15 year old girl Referenced in the thread on Hurt to the core the national crime agency had made the connection in the garden and Liz with the same person The hunt was on Well, not exactly I basically had a needle in a haystack. There are 32 million uk males over the age of 18 So I had to reduce that down to one It took four years for the national crime agency working in collaboration with the gchq the uk spy agency The fbi the u.s department of homeland security the australian federal police the new zealand police And the israel police to finally figure out who in the garden was They were a number one target over that four-year period Liz going on the different names had continued their blackmail scheme on the surface web And when they received images and videos typically child pornography from a victim They posted that content on hurt to the core in the garden had posted that often they aren't the title Child rapist that meant then that at a minimum they posted 250 separate posts of hurt core images and videos relating to children before the site closed in 2014 after that it's believed their offending continued elsewhere on the dark net this time under the aliases evil mind and 666 devil although All of these are correct You gotta be you gotta be There gotta be some devil located inside of you for you to move like this Reporters don't state what websites they posted to more than likely due to ongoing police investigations It's thought that in the garden approached up to 300 people as a part of their blackmail scheme hundreds would go on to fall victim But in 2017 it would all come to an end in march of that year Police had managed to trace the in the garden evil mind and 666 devil accounts to an address in birmingham, england However detectives weren't too sure how strong the lead was because the person of interest Didn't fit the profile of someone who typically posted such content on the dark net. They had to go undercover Is this an undercover agent right here because this is a good one That's 29 year old university of birmingham lecturer dr. Matthew folder being surveilled by the national crime agency. He Was their key suspect behind the dark net accounts Look like they fit the bill for sure Police say if you took a look at his life, you wouldn't have suspected that to be the case He didn't necessarily fit the profile born in nutsfield cheshire. Matthew folder See i'm just going off with people like the eye test for me the eye test It grew up in a 700 Fits fitting you know what i'm saying necessarily fit the profile born in nutsfield cheshire Matthew folder had grew up in a 700 000 pound home with a stable family life There were no reports of any abuse. He attended private school throughout his childhood His parents rubbed shoulders with the movers and shakers without sounding like too much of a cliche Matthew had the opportunity to do whatever he wanted because the financial freedom was there He decided to settle for his education and excelled in school He's featured here in a school letter stating that out of 75 000 students nationwide He was one of the four percent that quote struck gold in a maths competition as part of beating that challenge It granted him a place at the maths olympic trials He didn't feature on the school letter just once though ladies and gentlemen rather twice On the next page he was pictured with six of the students who had completed interviews with the university of their choice and had all been accepted Matthew chose to study natural sciences at the illustrious cambridge university. He graduated with a master's degree He was one of the finest students i'd ever supervised. His work had an international impact Matthew reveled in the social side of university. He looked to impress his peers He wasn't going to be that person not even gonna lie like I can't like I don't see it either I don't see a lot of red flags from the from like his background or anything like that Who stayed inside all day studying? He wanted to be the life and soul of the party What many didn't know though was that behind the smiles and laughter lay a dark secret That's Matthew folder as early as 2007 He'd been setting up hidden cameras in bathrooms at publicly accessible toilets Oh, wow He's one of these And his parents home covertly recording females. He both knew and didn't in total 27 videos were taken of eight victims over the period of a few years This footage would initially be for personal use but soon made its way onto the dark net in roughly 2009 when Matthew connected with like-minded individuals Not much is known about his early days on the dark net other than he would trade that footage in return for different depraved material Nearly a decade on police had connected him to online accounts that posted some of the most horrific child abuse videos When that connection was eventually made in 2017 a two-month surveillance operation was set up by the national crime agency And by June of that year they had more than enough evidence to suggest that he had been running the dark net accounts What was that i've done? What was it i'm supposed to have done sir? The offenses that i've arrested during suspicion have been involved in Yep Were blackmail Causing the nor'in sight of the child to engage in sexual activity Possessing indecent images of children sounds like the rap shoot from hell Distributing indecent images of Talking about sounds like the rap sheet from hell. Look at your usernames. You should be familiar with them rap sheets You know what's going on stop it Buddy the children and causing Gbh interest to a person It's become apparent that obviously that's the email account that's current and you're using that this moment in turn Is that correct? No comment Is there any other email accounts? A few that you're using at the current time No comment The bro went from Sounds like the rap sheet from hell to No comment Now you're hard and criminal all of yourself If there are any more email accounts, what are the passwords for? No comment Have you done that? No comment Have you sent pictures of your blackmail victims to The parents? No comment The victim? The grandparents? No comment The workplace? The schools? No comment Just because you say no comment don't mean they're not going to get you Have you shared that with anybody else? No comment You distribute to those images to any blackmail victims on the forums with this was previously No comment Or with any other person No comment Did you get any sexual notification? I'm not even gonna lie you asked me to watch Mr. Swirl I can't even cap to you man. It's gonna be a month before I watch any more stuff like this No comment Can't even do it Is it power and control for nothing? No comment Or was it humiliation? No comment But in a month we can watch So you know I know I'm a hundred percent anonymous How's that thank you No comment Initially Matthew gave a no comment interview to police But on the third day of his arrest in a prepared statement He would go on to say that he owned the evil mind account But that admission also meant he was the owner of in the garden and 666 devil Matthew folder would go on to be charged with a hundred and initially Matthew gave a no comment Interview to police but on the third day of his arrest My bad now we gotta start over now because y'all y'all need to understand what's going on here Go back go back. Okay. Perfect What I said was let's take a look at this room here No bed frame For a no comment interview dried up socks everywhere What them for you may ask Y'all know what that foe It's a police but on the third day of his arrest in a prepared statement He would go on to say that he owned the evil mind account But that admission also meant he was the owner of it boom this right here And they called it is crazy three glasses of water. None of them fully drinking Exhibit a Roll of tissue Exhibit be look at how he was sitting up in the bed Guilty I ain't gonna hold you guilt guilty And 666 double is these towels This is a towel y'all This is a towel He's guilty Matthew Forder would go on to be charged with 188 separate offenses for crimes ranging from encouraging the rape of a minor to earning a pedophile manual Which instructed pedophiles on how to carry out child sexual abuse and not Was he streaming be detected by police? He would go on to plead guilty to 100 Rag by the computer In 37 out of the 188 charges that were placed against him the rest are to lie on his file On february 19th 2018 Matthew Forder would be handed a 32 year prison sentence But believe it or not just eight months later that sentence was reduced to 25 years after an appeal hearing Why serve two thirds of that sentence before he's eligible for parole Like people wouldn't understand that it wasn't my fault how it started and that I didn't Didn't want to do it But I felt that no one would understand because there was no one there You said this man right here could have been watching normal porm man guilty Sort of holding a knife to me saying you will do this even though it felt like that So I didn't tell anyone 30 in 32 years. I don't talk to my family anymore. I felt like they didn't Wouldn't understand and didn't understand what had happened to me I got my day in court and I want everyone else To have that day. I want them to tell someone to tell a friend tell your parents tell someone at work and To tell the police because they can even if it takes a long time find these people and they will They they will get punished So it's very difficult to understand a crime where the motive does not include financial gain passion money or or revenge or hate When the sole motivation of an individual is purely to cause pain to another That's quite hard to grasp evil most crimes you there is you can see the motive you're gonna you're not Except maybe you can you can see where it comes from but in this individual The sole motivation was to inflict pain on another and the journey to that So it was all about the complete and total power and control over another person When we identified mathie folder That there was a real adrenaline rush The problem is we have to make sure that Or I have to make sure that at the point of which I Decide to take action That a I'm not putting anybody at risk. So the point of identifier is anybody at risk currently Have I got enough to to do that intervention? And have I got enough that when I do that intervention? I am going to going to stop his capabilities to commit further crimes That's the only problem I'll be having with a lot of these sting operations That I'll be seeing on on youtube and things of that nature Because they do this thing They embarrass them on the internet, but you don't put yourself in a position to actually get them jail time or you know, I'm saying so They still out here running free That impact for some has been lifelong and for many of them We've been able to offer them options of help and support to start to move forward with hopefully a different chapter in their life and Being able to safeguard them through the work that we all have done as part of the investigation Has been really long video We didn't know who he was or where he was So in terms of working over quite a prolonged period of time Knowing that there was likely harm that he was causing to people But we weren't able to intervene and stop and pretend there were times when that was really cool I think we felt a thought he wouldn't be caught And I think he actually was probably the type of individual that would be telling people that he wouldn't be caught On the anonymous service and then living a completely different life in his day-to-day life Um, ultimately that wasn't the case Ultimately we with our international partners caught him and with the help of the victims we've put in Britain So for us, this has been a relentless pursuit to catch dr. Matthew folder Um, but what saddened me is his relentless pursuit of the victims And he would stop at nothing to exploit them to make them feel sad humiliated or unhappy And he didn't really care in any way shape or form how that manifested Ultimately that has devastated some people's lives And I'm very proud of our team and also those victims being able to stand up and stop him So for me the highs of this investigation are actually catching him and actually knowing that it stopped Because like when I sat in court behind some of the victims I felt truly proud of them and I felt the journey that they've been on We've actually been able to help them to end it Um in terms of the lows There's been moments when I've been driving home thinking is this going to end How are we actually going to deal with this and ultimately you know as a human being that can be really tricky because you can see the abuse That's happening and you sometimes feel powerless to stop it Ultimately the high is that end point when it stopped So Matthew folder is not alone in exploiting grooming a black I guess you've got to take this job that they are right here because I've been thinking like man Y'all celebrating this one victory a little bit too hard, man There's still millions. There's still a lot of work to be done out here when there comes some stuff like this But I guess like you got to like take every victory and hold it high in this field Because if you don't you're going to drive in so crazy You know what I'm saying But you know not for too long Those backs are working buddy There's many other people out there are doing that However, Matthew folder is part of a very small group of people that took it to an extreme where it is about absolute exploitation About absolute pain and about really the degradation of humans within society So, um, thankfully he is quite rare, but there are others and our job is the answer is to catch them Anonymous networks by their very definition in nature are really really tricky Because what you've effectively got is a place where people can go they can hide and they can't be found So of course what that means you've got to be innovative. You've got to use new and different tactics And ultimately you've got to think around a very difficult problem I'm really really proud of the staff and I think when you sometimes sit back and look at them working those long hours Um, and actually missing those home appointments and also just sometimes having to deal with really Yeah, no cut man. Good work. Good work. Good work On to the next one depraved and disgusting material But I just think they're brilliant and the sacrifices they've made for justice is truly impressive The large-scale offending prosecution service the most important Aspects as a prosecutor that you have to deal with is to ensure That the court is given the Accurate picture of the level of the person's offending and the scale of the offending It was important to represent in the charges. However, many the nature Of the different types of offenses that mr. Folder had committed and it was important to represent Every single victim that had been identified and for whom there was sufficient evidence Welcome to the why what welcome to video You've got the front of the video and the back of the video and the back of the video and the front of the IRS criminal investigation special agents chris jankowski and tigrin gambaren are sitting in bank ox Subna boom airport ready to jet back home to washington dc after the successful arrest of olexandra casas owner of the alpha bay A dark net drugs marketplace that had grown 10 times as big as its predecessor the silk road although successful chris and tigrin had been sidelined by their law enforcement counterparts in the fbi when it came to the arrested self An anti-climatic ending for a case they'd been working tirelessly on for years at that point In fact, they hadn't even been invited to watch a live stream of the arrest They just got word when the job was done Their flights were delayed on that summer's evening in july of 2017 So to pass time they sat down together to figure out what their next case should be with the help of a blockchain Tracing software by the name of chain analysis The software was responsible for aiding in many dark net related cases A dark net gambling site was one lead they wanted to follow But that would have been a tiny headline hidden within a thousand news articles They needed something bigger dark net drug markets practically cease to exist for months after the takedown Of the alpha bay. How are they going to match something of that magnitude? Welcome to video I've been with the guys down at the national crime agency in london They showed me a couple of their open cases I think you might want to take a look into this one. They recently arrested a guy. I think his name was Matthew something Anyway, he'd been caught up posting some extreme child exploitation material on the dark net They managed to gain access to his computer and came across a website called welcome to video According to the national crime agency It's the biggest child exploitation website that they've ever came across home to 1.3 million users Now before you go asking me what this would have to do with the irs Would you believe that users are using bitcoin to pay for the material? We ran a bitcoin address that was a part of welcome to videos financial network through chain analysis And there it was right in front of us the addresses of customers who are paying to gain access to the material on the site Honestly, I can't believe that so many people not just buyers But also the site's administrator have done nothing to obscure that crypto trail Some users have literally purchased bitcoin from an exchange and sent it straight to welcome to video We've struck gold here. Look. Why don't the irs take the case on it'll make headlines around the world And the trail is there to follow chain analysis has taken the first step The crypto from the site is being cashed out in south korea. So I'd stop there if you're going to take the case on With the groundbreaking case now in their hands both chris and tigrant pulled a team together to investigate welcome to video Alongside law enforcement agencies from around the world The irs were going to treat this as a financial investigation rather than a child exploitation one Even though that was the case They would still have to force themselves to watch the material on the site in order to come to terms with what they were dealing with Past the greeting page the site displayed a vast seemingly endless collection of video titles and thumbnails arrayed in squares of four stills per video Apparently chosen automatically from the files frames. Those small images were a catalog of horrors. It's not gonna lie This is like four videos in one That's why it's so long enough to see if children being sexually abused and raped Below the search field it listed popular keywords users had entered the most popular was an abbreviation for one year old The second most popular was an abbreviation for two year old Welcome to video was home to 250,000 The site was based on a point system the points were used in order to gain access to the content Look at the what the f*** bro And you could obtain points by either buying them with bitcoin or by uploading content The more downloads your video would get the more points you'd receive The website was encouraging the active abuse of children It was time for the team to really get their heads down and capture as many people connected with the site as they could Hopefully saving children in the process During the investigation the team noticed that there was no option for users Including moderators to pull crypto out which meant all of the money flowing out of the site via crypto exchanges in south korea More than 300,000 dollars worth of bitcoin at that point would almost certainly belong to the site's owner So tigger and reached out to south korean crypto exchanges bit thumb and coin one whilst chris reached out to an Unidentified u.s crypto exchange to see who exactly was running welcome to video or thanks to chain alices. However Was a slight hurdle exchanges couldn't just give users information out And so the team had to get court orders in the background then they continued to investigate the site itself Looking for any more clues. You're not going to believe what happened As a basic security check tigger and right clicked on welcome to videos homepage and chose view page source After doing so, he spotted an ip address and did some checks on it to his surprise It hadn't been obscured by tors anonymizing network Which meant he was staring at the unprotected address of welcome to video server. That server location South korea. So the team were confident. That's where the owner of welcome to video was located They had a lick. They had an easy little case man. They walked right up on him And when the crypto exchanges finally got back to them that lead was solidified The profile packages that were sent over contained the details of two men with their pictures attached Where the two men co-owners of welcome to video the team didn't think so One of the men was middle-aged and had noticeably dirty hands He looked more like a farm worker than someone running a site on the dark web Then there was the other person a 21 year old man by the name of song jung woo This ladies and gentlemen was welcome to video's owner. The two men were father and son It was clear to the team that song jung woo had used his father in order to set up crypto accounts That would eventually be connected with welcome to video even though they finally had their man after weeks of Investigating the irs. That's crazy, man. Not only are you doing something this crazy? You were also involved your father in it Unbeknownst to him is like you don't care about nothing Didn't authorize an immediate arrest with their korean counterparts because they wanted to try and trace as many users of the site Without raising an alarm Good morning, everyone. I'm jesse lu. I'm the u.s. Attorney for the district of columbia Thank you all for being here for this very important announcement of significant actions to protect children from sexual exploitation I'm joined today by key partners in the federal government's fight against those who exploit the most vulnerable among us Let me be absolutely clear What we are here to discuss today the sexual exploitation of children is one of the worst forms of evil imaginable Indeed these crimes are so heinous. They are difficult even to speak about But our government has no higher priority than the safety of our children For that reason, I am pleased to announce the takedown Of one of the world's largest child sexual exploitation marketplaces on the dark net Welcome to video The seizure of its enormous cash of child pornography And the unsealing of the u.s. Endowment against its administrator jong woo sun Welcome to video was a tour network based And finally this case is really about three things. First, it's about following the money This has been our mantra for the last hundred years and whether the funds are fiat or virtual IRS ci's expertise isn't tracing money all around the world Second, it's about protecting our children Child pornographers prey on the youngest and the most vulnerable in our society Children who are incapable of consenting to these disgusting acts These are the bottom feeders of the criminal world There are no lengths to which we will not go to protect our children from these wretched individuals And finally this case is about sending a message to criminals around the world Not a symbolic message, but a real message You used to hide by laundering your money through shell companies around the country what we traced you You took your money offshore and hid around the world, but we found you You went on the dark web thinking that your actions were anonymous But they weren't and we found you again You're now dealing cryptocurrency again thinking this will make you anonymous But our agents have once again proved that there is nowhere that you can hide We will not stop in our pursuit What about hard speech if he didn't have to read and he memorized it 337 people the majority Korean were arrested as the result of a joint operation Carried out by the IRS homeland security the national crime agency the germ of federal police and the korean national police It's difficult to find in-depth reporting about the arrests other than a handful of cases One user who had been a top priority for law enforcement was a man who had been posting fresh videos of himself Repeatedly raping a female child and although this user was able to access content on welcome to video without buying bitcoin As he had been racking up points from downloads. He still went ahead and did so anyway Those bitcoin transactions were traced through chain analysis and ultimately he was identified U.S. Homeland Security Forever out Paul Casey Whipple It was one of their own a deep dive into Paul's social media accounts led law enforcement to a GoFundMe page Where he was campaigning to raise money to legally adopt his stepdaughter The GoFundMe contained an image of Paul's stepdaughter wearing a specific red flannel shirt tied around her waist With this information now in hand the team went back to see if Paul's stepdaughter was the girl in the videos On welcome to video and there it was that same red flannel shirt that was in the image on the GoFundMe When he was eventually tracked down by detectives Paul initially denied the allegations But later confessed to them although he confessed as of 2023 Reporters state that he's still awaiting trial It wasn't just one happens, so you know the system is arrested as a part of this investigation though rather too Homeland security agent Richard Nikolai Gratskowski who was assigned to a squad within eye You know what's crazy, man? It was probably imputing the results of the investigation knowing that oh man. They looking into it. Let me let me try to Do what I can to slow them to investigate gangs in San Antonio was found to be an avid user on welcome to video In-depth details about his involvement with the site are scarce Other than he was thought to have used at bitcoin to obtain an undisclosed amount of material from the site He was eventually tracked down thanks to chain analysis and would go on to plead guilty to one count of receipt of child Pornography and one count of access with intent to view child pornography He was jailed for five and a half years in may of 2019 All department of home and security employees are held to the highest standards of behavior and ethics While ice it does not comment on personal matters The agency is fully cooperating with the fbi and the department of homeland security's office of inspector general regarding this issue Over in the united kingdom a then 26 year old man Kyle fox had been arrested by the national crime agency after he was identified as a producer on welcome To video when officers arrested him at his home He was found to be in possession of 13 000 images and videos of young children Including toddlers being raped and sexually abused Kyle was one of the nca's top priorities as he was posting videos of himself Actively raping a five-year-old boy and sexually abusing a three-year-old girl The young children appeared to be under the influence of drugs in the videos When officers entered Kyle's home to apprehend him the five-year-old boy Who was being abused in the videos was found naked in his bed It isn't clear what relationship Kyle had with the children But what is known is that the children weren't related to each other Kyle fox was handed a 22 year prison sentence as the result of the welcome to video investigation They caught you red-handed too, buddy. You're going to jail. He's to spend a further two years on license when he's released He's actually abused two very young and vulnerable children Your offences were detected when a video of the abuse was uploaded to a file sharing website It came to the attention of officers who were able to trace you from the data These are extremely serious and depraved offences No, right-minded person could be other than horrified by this appalling series of offences in march of 2018 Son Jong-woo would finally be apprehended by South Korean police But owning the largest child pornography site on the dark net for the allegations He faced a 10-year prison sentence But the judge would go on to sentence him to just two years in prison with three years probation. However, oh my god Korea But that prison sentence was suspended meaning he'd spend no time in jail Oh What why? I don't even know the words to put together to talk about that one. How? Who's his lawyer? The harm to society is great But the accused is young and has no criminal history. He repents In september of 2018 son was released after receiving well, you don't think he's gonna go back and do the same thing somehow some way In that suspended sentence, but he basically got away with it The legal battle wasn't over. You see an appeal was lodged by the prosecution Due to the lenient sentence handed down. They felt it was a smack in the face to all of the victims Considering the things I knew well I thought the sentence of the first trial was too light and unfair The second judge handed him an 18 month prison sentence son walked free from jail in july of 2020 Is that right? Put that 18 months, man. It's that this this that bs I know people still in jail for weed chargers in chicago and weed is legal. This baby in jail for four four five years He got out in two for this Today They got the nerves to be out here still respectfully bowing. It's crazy In october of 2019 it was announced. I swear the jujitsu the jujitsu system everywhere be wild. They just don't they don't even 18 months That son was indicted by a united state October of in october of 2019 It was announced that son was indicted by a united state federal grand jury in the district of columbia for the operation of welcome to video He was looking at down to me in jail. Yeah extradited and found guilty However, after a lengthy court battle the soul high court announced It rejected the extradition request on the grounds that having son in korea would be more helpful for the country's fight against Child pornography the decision to reject the extradition request was met with backlash Many members of the public protested outside of the court Ultimately though son would walk away a free man. Well temporarily anyway because in june of 2022 He was handed a two-year prison sentence for laundering the money he made from welcome to video Yes, he received a longer prison sentence for money laundering than he did for owning welcome to video I'm telling you man the judicial system is And so there you have it the takedown of a dark net paedophile ring when I initially looked into this case Believe it or not. It started with matthew folder. I was interested in seeing Yeah, I had I told you I had just done a video. It wasn't it wasn't matthew photo I had just done a video and then this came out like weeks later, but Yeah, I don't want to hear this absolute to you though until I leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post This is disgusting