AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Five West Australian children have been removed from harm by police, after an international child sexual abuse ring was smashed.
It comes as part of a joint crackdown on those using a Toronto-based child exploitation website.
For the past four months, police officers around the world have been executing search warrants and making arrests.
Globally 386 children have been removed from situations where they were used to create images of child sexual abuse.
Police raided homes in Perth and the Esperance-Goldfields district as part of the operation.
So far four people aged between 30 and 72 have been charged by WA Police.
They are facing a total of 107 offences including indecent dealing of a child under 13, indecent recording of a child under 13 and possession of child exploitation material.
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