the wonderland club

13 arrests have been made in the largest ever operation in the uk against child pornography on the internet

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Our thanks to our old friend, DCI Bob McLachlan, head of The Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit in the UK and the members from the 13 forces throughout England and Scotland involved in the operation, for making children safer worldwide.

The seven men involved in the largest international paedophile ring "The Wonderland Club" (consisting of 180 paedophiles worldwide who prided themselves on being "the cream of paedophiles") were imprisoned today but, they escaped the maximum jail sentence of three years and are also to be placed on the sex offenders register (Baldock and Hines for life & the others for seven years). They may all be free again in as short a time as eighteen months from now.

The judge at Kingston Crown Court, Judge Kenneth Macrae, condemned the seven for abusing children for their own pleasure, yet also, somewhat unbelieveably, afforded credit for "pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children"

750,000 pictures & 1 800 videos depicting more than 1,263 children (from all over the world including the UK, the US, Portugal, Chile & Argentina) suffering sexual abuse were seized by police.

Cyberangels asssisted in the investigations into "The Wonderland Club". Whilst we are pleased that the seven admitted their guilt, we remain unhappy that they escaped the full penalty. The "wrong" message has been sent out to others, here.

These seven men all "paid" their subscription to "The Wonderland Club", which was to provide 10,000 new indecent pictures of children.

David Hines, 30, of Chichester Road, Bognor Regis, West Sussex aka "Mutt's Nutts"

Ian Baldock, 31, an Oxford University Press computer consultant, of St Leonards Lodge, Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards, East Sussex

Antoni Skinner, a computer consultant of London Road, Cheltenham, Gloucester, aka "Uhura" and "Satan"

Ahmed Ali, 31, a taxi driver from Palace Road, Tulse Hill, south London, aka "Caesar"

Andrew Barlow, 25, unemployed, of Albert Street, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, aka "Mix"

Frederick Stephens, 46, a taxi driver of Priory Close, Hayes, West London, aka "Guess Who" and "Me Again"

Gavin Seagers, 29, a computer consultant and Sea Cadets youth leader, of Burnham Crescent, Dartford, Kent, aka "Spank Daddy"

That is 10,000 new images each.
A total of 70,000 new images. 70,000 moments of abuse.
Each a moment from an innocent child's life.