Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Operation Cathedral was a police operation that broke up an international child pornography ring called The Wonderland Club operating over the Internet. It was led by the British National Crime Squad in cooperation with 13 other police forces around the globe, who arrested 107 suspects (almost all simultaneously) across 12 countries on September 1, 1998. Seven UK-based men were convicted for their part in the ring in 2001.One reason for the high profile of the operation was the unusually high number of images involved possessed and produced and distributed by Wonderland Club: 750,000 images with 1,200 unique identifiable faces. Despite substantial work by many of the agencies involved only a very small number of those appearing in the images have been identified.The investigation had been sparked by a tip-off from United States police investigating the rape of an eight-year-old girl broadcast live to pedophiles by webcam. The international and highly organized nature of the ring has led to a much higher concern for the child sexual abuse that is child pornography.. }
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- Operation_Cathedral abstract "Operation Cathedral was a police operation that broke up an international child pornography ring called The Wonderland Club operating over the Internet. It was led by the British National Crime Squad in cooperation with 13 other police forces around the globe, who arrested 107 suspects (almost all simultaneously) across 12 countries on September 1, 1998. Seven UK-based men were convicted for their part in the ring in 2001.One reason for the high profile of the operation was the unusually high number of images involved possessed and produced and distributed by Wonderland Club: 750,000 images with 1,200 unique identifiable faces. Despite substantial work by many of the agencies involved only a very small number of those appearing in the images have been identified.The investigation had been sparked by a tip-off from United States police investigating the rape of an eight-year-old girl broadcast live to pedophiles by webcam. The international and highly organized nature of the ring has led to a much higher concern for the child sexual abuse that is child pornography.".