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Two police officers, a Little League coach, and a mother were among 71 people arrested across the New York City-area in the largest-ever roundup of people who share child pornography online, federal and local law enforcement said Wednesday (May 21).
The 70 men and one woman came from all five boroughs of New York City and the surrounding suburbs, including New Jersey and Long Island, and range in age from their 20s to 50s, authorities said.
The investigation was led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), whose agents identified an online network sharing child pornography, said Special Agent James Hayes. …
Authorities became aware of the file-sharing ring after the January arrest of Brian Fanelli, a former police chief in Mount Pleasant, 24 miles (38 km) north of New York City and the March arrest of a Brooklyn rabbi, Samuel Waldman, on child pornography charges.
Both men’s computers were linked to a peer-to-peer network that allowed users to share caches of child pornography while easily importing materials from other computers linked on the network, authorities said.
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