Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said the “Welcome to Video” site contained 250,000 videos that were downloaded a million times by users across the world. “The website monetised the sexual abuse of children and was one of the first to offer sickening videos for sale using the cryptocurrency bitcoin,” the NCA said in a statement. In Washington, the US Department of Justice said separately the site operated “the largest child sexual exploitation market by volume of content” when it was taken down. The NCA said seven men have already been convicted in Britain since the first suspect was arrested in 2017. The US Justice Department indicted the site’s alleged operator — identified as 23-year-old South Korean national Jong Woo Son — on nine counts.

Source: The Express Tribune October 16, 2019 19:28 UTC