NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY ERICA PEARSON , BILL HUTCHINSON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2014
A shocking investigation resulted in the arrests of 71 “twisted individuals” who swapped thousands of sick kiddie porn images on the Internet like baseball cards, officials said Wednesday.
Nabbed in the crackdown were an NYPD officer, a Westchester County police chief, a Brooklyn rabbi, two registered nurses, a paramedic and an au pair. One suspect was both a Boy Scout den leader and a Little League baseball coach.
The arrests also included High Bridge, N.J., mother Lori Bauer, who was charged with producing and distributing pornography involving her own child.
Officials said the voluminous evidence seized suggests the sexual exploitation of children in the New York City area has hit “epidemic proportions.”
The disturbing images confiscated off computers, smartphones and thumb drives included children as young as 3 years old being sexually abused, officials said.
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