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Operation Cathedral was a police operation that broke up an international child pornography ring called The ''Wonderland Club'' operating over the Internet. It was led by the British National Crime Squad in cooperation with 13 other police forces around the globe,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paedophiles' vast 'lending library' )〕 who arrested 107 suspects (almost all simultaneously) across 12 countries on 1 September 1998. Seven UK-based men were convicted for their part in the ring in 2001.〔 *(Child porn gang face jail )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - UK - Wickedness of Wonderland )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Members of international paedophile ring to be sentenced - UK news - The Observer )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Internet paedophiles are jailed )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CNN.com - How police smashed child porn club - February 13, 2001 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - UK - Tackling online child pornography )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - UK - Tackling online child pornography )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wonderland club with a sick agenda )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Net paedophiles and the malice of Wonderland )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - UK - Net porn trader denies abuse )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CNN.com - Child porn gang face jail - February 13, 2001 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - PM - Child pornographers sentenced )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC NEWS - UK - Wonderland sentences a 'joke' )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Members of international paedophile ring to be sentenced - UK news - The Observer )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CNN.com - How police smashed child porn club - February 13, 2001 )〕 One reason for the high profile of the operation was the unusually high number of images involved possessed and produced and distributed by Wonderland Club: 750,000 images with 1,200 unique identifiable faces. Despite substantial work by many of the agencies involved only a very small number of those appearing in the images have been identified. The investigation had been sparked by a tip-off from United States police investigating the rape of an eight-year-old girl broadcast live to pedophiles by webcam.〔 The international and highly organized nature of the ring has led to a much higher concern for the child sexual abuse that is child pornography. ==Risks to relatives== Due to the lack of a proper legal framework, what has now become computer law, judges and lawyers in a few countries were unsure on how to interpret facts related to computers and the Internet. Because of the publicity the operation received, full names and addresses were almost always divulged to the media thus exposing direct relatives (wives and children) to potential danger from vigilante types among the general public. In Belgium in particular, the Police Judiciare had come under heavy criticism for the handling of the Marc Dutroux case in 1995. The efforts to restore a more positive image and the moral aspect behind the operation led officers to hold a certain disregard for relatives and even consider them as potential accomplices. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Operation Cathedral」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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