Frankfurt prosecutors said on Thursday they had shut down a major online child pornography platform, used by more than 87,000 members to organize sexual abuse of children. The site known as 'Elysium' "was used for global exchanges of child pornography by its members and to arrange meetings to sexually abuse children," prosecutors in the western city of Frankfurt said in a statement. Its 87,000 members traded images and video files of "the most serious sexual abuse of children, including babies, and representations of sexual violence against children," the statement continued. They have repeatedly been used by criminals to trade drugs, weapons and child pornography. Among them are people accused of serious sexual abuse of children as well as distribution of child pornography, the statement said.

Source: The Local July 06, 2017 08:48 UTC