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Child
Porn Investigation
& Four Suicides
In
Melbourne, Australia the government will press on with a child
pornography crackdown despite the suicides of four people being
investigated in the operation. Justice Minister Chris Ellison
said the deaths were regrettable but vowed they would not hinder
Australia's biggest crackdown on child porn, an operation that
he said would likely lead to 500 arrests. ``This will not deter,
in any way, the investigation,'' he said.
Two
men in Victoria state and one each in Queensland and Western Australia
states have killed themselves in recent days. Australian authorities
already have arrested more than 200 people - including police
officers, teachers, doctors and the owner of three child care
centers - in the crackdown. On Friday, police said 46-year-old
Kim Della-Vedova, who was arrested in the state of Western Australia,
killed himself. His body was found after he failed to appear in
court on three charges of possessing child pornography. A Victoria
police spokeswoman confirmed two men in the state had taken their
own lives after being interrogated about child pornography. Another
man, a former police officer, killed himself in the northeastern
of Queensland after being questioned.
Police
also said Saturday that they had searched three child care centers
in the southern city of Melbourne owned by a man who had been
charged with possession of child pornography. Detectives searched
the three centers for hidden cameras or listening devices but
found nothing. The investigation into Australian child porn rings
was prompted by a U.S. probe into Internet sites linked to eastern
European criminal gangs. Investigators have found an estimated
1 million images of child pornography on computers seized in a
string of raids in recent weeks.
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