Two FBI agents were killed investigating a child abuse ring – a year later Australian police arrested 19 men allegedly linked to the dark web paedophile network.
A fatal shootout with an American paedophile that claimed the lives of two FBI agents unearthed the Australian arm of an alleged child abuse network, leading police to 19 paedophiles and sparking the rescue of 13 children across the country, investigators say.
A screen shot from local news after two FBI agents were killed while trying to serve a warrant in a case involving child porn and “violent crimes against children”.The reclusive IT worker behind the trigger, 55-year-old David Lee Huber, is likely to have seen the FBI through his doorbell camera and fired his assault rifle through the door.
“Members used software to anonymously share files, chat on message boards and access websites within the network,” the AFP said in a statement.“Network members were able to search for and distribute images and videos of child abuse material, and allegedly used encryption and other methods to avoid law enforcement detection.”
There were allegedly 800 child victims among the 16,000 files police found on the man’s hard drives, along with a “paedophiles handbook” about how to talk to police if caught.
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