This is just pretty sad and it only reinforces the reality that there are very bad people who are very protected who wish to, and do harm children. How can a professional who is supposed to investigate crimes be impartial when/if they are covering a crime where the sexual abuse of children is being investigated? Their level of empathy for the criminal aka child sexual predator will be high. Their ability to investigate properly will be hindered. And to boot it may be possible that the child sexual predator may know the investigator who is investigating through their common interest and attraction to children.Mr Gamble said the 50 officers were among 1,200 Britons who had been identified as "category one or two" suspects - those who posed the greatest potential risk to children
Operation Ore was a very high profile investigation that has been around for awhile. These 50 officers must have known full well that this was an ongoing investigation and that their behavior would be found out. It is going to be interesting following their trials. I honestly don't understand how people have such a hard time believing that there are well connected people who gain access to children for their own sexual gratification. When their are stories like this and the scandal floating around the investigation into the (Sandusky) Second Mile case http://americanfreepress.net/?p=5116 it shouldn't be so hard to believe. When people are in positions of power and have the ability to cover things up it is amazing the deviant, disgusting, unfathomable things they can get away with. Just yesterday I read an article about someone who worked undercover with the FBI on human trafficking http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/30/Brandon-Darby-FBI-Ignoring-Sex-Trafficking-of-Minors and he tells the story of cases that don't get investigated and his feeling compelled to tell his story. I am glad that some of these things are coming to light.
As a survivor of ritual abuse I experienced first hand how people can get away with covering up horrible things. Some of the sexual abuse I survived was at the hands of adults who incorporated the sexual abuse of children into their "ceremonies." I know first hand what it is like to be aware that something horrible is going on and is being covered up. I have written in earlier blog posts about what I have experienced and how pedophiles were part of this group. That is one of the reasons I am so passionate about getting the word out on child sexual abuse. People need to be held accountable for the roles they play in harming children. This is why I am so glad to see this epidemic being exposed. From what I am reading on twitter we are going to see more coming out about the Second Mile and their role in pimping out children. This will be quite a different situation then the Franklin scandal http://franklinscandal.com/ Main stream media might not cover story's like this but there are plenty on social networking sites, bloggers and non-main stream media outlets who will. Social media has been a big blessing to getting the word on on child sexual abuse and those who perpetuate it. I hope those who have gotten away with harming children and felt protected doing so in the past are starting to realize they will be found out. Rosie
Fifty police officers across the UK have been arrested as part of a crackdown on suspected paedophiles who pay to access child pornography websites, detectives revealed today.
The officers were among 1,300 people arrested on suspicion of accessing or downloading indecent images of children - some as young as five - from US-based Internet sites.
Thirty-five men were arrested in London this morning as part of the investigation - codenamed Operation Ore - following raids on 45 addresses across the capital.
Of the 50 policemen identified, eight have been charged to date and the remainder bailed pending further inquiries. Scotland Yard said none of those arrested today was a policeman.
At a press conference at Scotland Yard today, Jim Gamble, assistant chief constable of the National Crime Squad, said he was not surprised at the number of police officers among the suspects.
"As police officers, we should expect to be held accountable," he said.
"Fifty police officers have been identified and we are not hiding that fact. We want you to know about that to reassure you.
"Police officers are member of the communities that they serve and there will be good people and bad people in the police."
Mr Gamble said the 50 officers were among 1,200 Britons who had been identified as "category one or two" suspects - those who posed the greatest potential risk to children.
In addition, 40 children nationwide - 28 of them in London - had been identified as being at risk of being abused and appropriate steps had been taken with other agencies to ensure that all the youngsters were safe.
Before today's arrests, the Metropolitan Police had executed 75 warrants across the capital with 65 arrests and more than 130 computers seized. Although 7,000 suspected users of "pay-per-view" child pornography sites based in the US were identified in Britain, Mr Gamble said the actual number of offenders would probably be lower, partly due to duplicates.
The Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Carole Howlett, said today's raids represented the single largest operation of its kind mounted so far by the force.
She added: "Our priority so far has been to identify those individuals on the list that pose the greatest threat to children now.
"But this process is on-going ... and it will continue after today, even though it is extremely resource intensive."
Ms Howlett also announced that the Home Office had agreed to allocate an extra £500,000 to support further action as part of Operation Ore.
She said the money would be used to provide extra training in computer forensics for officers across the country and to buy more equipment for analysing computers seized.
Commenting on today's operation, children's charity NSPCC said it had been assisting the Met by responding to any emerging child protection matters.
Colin Turner, head of NSPCC's specialist investigation service, said: "The arrests send out a strong warning to those that think they can remain anonymous and escape the law by using the Internet to trade in child abuse images.
"Behind these indecent, abusive images are real children who will have suffered immense damage and trauma."
Operation Ore is the UK wing of a huge FBI operation which traced 250,000 paedophiles worldwide last year through credit card details used to pay for downloading child porn.
The names of British suspects were passed on by US investigators.
Suspects were traced through the Landslide web site - a gateway to an international collection of child pornography sites.
Thomas Reedy, who ran the web site and earned millions from it, is now serving several life sentences in the US.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-151784/50-police-officers-arrested-child-porn-raids.html
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