Global child-porn ring busted

An international pedophile network involving more than 700 suspects was investigated by police in 35 countries, the BBC reports, 200 of them in the UK. “The paedophile ring was run by [Briton] Timothy Cox, 27, who is due to be sentenced for child porn offences.” He ran a chat room, called “Kids the Light of Our Lives,” that was used to exchange pictures of child exploitation. Some 75,000 explicit images were found on Cox’s own computer, the BBC adds. “In total, 31 children were saved as a result of the investigation,” the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre, which coordinated the international investigation, told the BBC.