Joint Sino-US effort smashes child sex sites again, sites

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BEIJING - An organization running pedophile sites, part of a group of Chinese-language porn websites, has been smashed following a joint operation between China and the United States. Sunshine Entertainment Alliance, which was based in New York, operated at least 18 websites containing disturbing images of children, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday. All of the websites were in Chinese and were advertised to Chinese-speaking audiences. Indictments have been filed against Wang Yong, 26, a permanent resident of the United States originally from Fujian province. He is accused of running the sites from his home in Flushing, New York. Wang allegedly made hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2007 by selling "memberships" that allowed individuals to post and download graphic images of children. The closure of the sites comes roughly a year after Chinese and US police agreed to work together to combat pedophile websites. "This is the first time that the Ministry of Public Security and US police have conducted joint action targeting cross-border online crimes," Deng Hongmin, deputy director of the ministry's network security protection bureau, said on Thursday. "We'll continue to strengthen joint judicial cooperation with police from various countries and fight international crime, including online pornography, gambling, fraud and hackers," she said. Wang set up a website in the US in 2002 before bringing 48 other Chinese websites under his management, forming the largest online Chinese-language grouping, according to the ministry. It included more than 1,000 forums where up to 100 million pornographic images were shared. Of these, 18 were related to graphic images of children, the ministry said. "Websites for pedophiles were not only spreading obscenities, but they also led to other criminal activity," said Guo Yuan, a senior police officer at the network security protection bureau. Criminals using the sites tried to entice people to abuse children, she said. Once Wang established the website group, Chinese police tried to close it, Guo said. "But the website operators and servers were in America." In April last year, Chinese police reached an agreement with their US counterparts to jointly tackle the pedophile websites. On June 23, US police arrested Wang at his New York home and Chinese police detained 10 suspects on the Chinese mainland. The suspects were allegedly involved in money laundering, the ministry said. All of the websites have been closed, according to the ministry. Wang has been charged, according to the FBI, with advertising in connection with the sexual exploitation of children, distributing and reproducing graphic images of children, and could face a minimum sentence of 15 years. Wang's carried out all his alleged criminal activities in the US, said Dai Peng, director of the Chinese People's Public Security University's criminal investigation department. "Distributing and reproducing graphic images of children is a crime in both China and the US and this is the legal basis for bilateral cooperation," he said. However, both sides must overcome certain difficulties in jointly targeting international cyber crime, he added. "One big challenge is that electronic evidence can be easily destroyed, and law enforcers in both countries have to work out agreed procedures to collect and preserve evidence, and exchange or accept evidence collected by the other side."
China Daily

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child sex sites ?
it is freak conduct , these bad men should be punished strongly.