26 Charged With Using P2P to Swap Child-Sex Videos

NEW YORK — Law enforcement officials announced felony charges against 26 people on Tuesday for the possession and distribution of violent child pornography over the internet, in one of the most wide-ranging cyber-sex-crime roll-ups in recent memory.

“The defendants in these cases traded images of child sexual assault the way that others trade baseball cards,” Vance said at a press conference in lower Manhattan. “They were curators of their collections, who carefully labeled, sorted and shared their cache with others.”

Vance said that the images and videos go well beyond pornography, and depict rape and other sexual violence against young children.

“We cannot show you these images, but if we could, I can assure you that you would be shocked and disgusted and horrified by the images they contain,” Vance said. “These are babies, toddlers and children being brutally raped, sexually assaulted and exploited by adults on camera.”