Worldwide child porn crackdown begins

A RECENT police sweep as part of a worldwide crackdown on child pornography netted 96 suspects in Austria alone, including a Roman Catholic priest who has confessed to the crime.

The operation in early June was part of an international effort to purge cities worldwide of child porn.

Officers seized 2,700 CDs and DVDs, another 2,700 video cassettes and numerous computer discs and hard drives containing images of underage children in sexual situations. In total, 12,154 items were confiscated.