WASHINGTON — Fourteen men were
charged with operating an online child exploitation network that
investigators said preyed upon hundreds of boys across the United States
and overseas, authorities announced Tuesday.
Law enforcement
officials said the arrests were part of a worrisome trend in which
children are being enticed by adults to post sexually explicit images of
themselves that are then shared online. In this case, authorities said,
users of an underground network posed online as girls to coerce boys
into sharing with them child pornography images.
"These alleged
perpetrators preyed upon the most innocent, most vulnerable members of
our society with no regard to the immediate or lasting harm they caused
to their victims and their families," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh
Johnson
said at a news conference.
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