238 Arrested in Major Hollywood Pedophile Ring Bust

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The Justice Department has arrested 238 in a major new operation

238 Arrested in Major Hollywood Pedophile Ring Bust
'Major Hollywood players' taken down for child sex crimes
By: Jay Greenberg  |@NeonNettle on 22nd June 2017 @ 6.23pm
http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2299-238-arrested-in-major-hollywood-pedophile-ring-bust

  "The Department of Justice has just conducted a series of raids across
   Los Angeles and arrested 238 people in connection with a Hollywood
   pedophilia network.
   
   According to police, the arrests included some "major Hollywood
   players" as well as politicians, white-collar professionals, a monk,
   and other high-ranking clergy members.
   
   The raids were conducted by the Los Angeles Regional Internet Crimes
   against Children task force, working directly with the Justice
   Department.
   
   Codenamed "Operation Broken Heart III", the sweeping raids targeted
   offenders wanted for the sexual exploitation of children, child
   prostitution, sex tourism and possessing and distributing child
   pornography, said Deputy Chief Matt Blake of the Los Angeles Police
   Department.
   
   Police stated that they are unable to release any names at this point,
   but confirmed that the arrested included some "household names" in the
   entertainment industry.
   
   Operation Broken Heart III is said to be part of a much larger
   operation that connects to national Elite pedophile rings and may
   extend worldwide.
   
   Among those arrested was an Australian politician who was attempting to
   "purchase" a 6-year-old boy.
   
   LA Times reports: Among those arrested during sweeps in April and May
   were entertainers, community leaders, white-collar professionals and
   clergy members, said John Reynolds, acting special agent in charge for
   U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations.
   
   "The incidence of child sexual exploitation has reached staggering
   proportions," he said at a news conference.
   
   Law enforcement officials said the arrests underscore the importance of
   families maintaining an open dialogue about Internet safety.
   
   "Parents and kids need to have frank conversations about how to stay
   safe in cyberspace," Reynolds said.
   
   Children and teens, he said, are spending more time on the Internet and
   social media sites, where child predators often look for victims.
   
   The Los Angeles task force is one of 61 programs nationwide funded
   through the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and
   Delinquency Prevention. Created in 2014, Operation Broken Heart gives
   law enforcement agencies and task forces an opportunity to combine
   resources and investigative tools to identify child sexual predators.
   
   The Los Angeles Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children
   unit serves about 300 warrants each year in pursuit of child
   pornography suspects.
   
   In a high-rise building in Long Beach, 11 officers review an average of
   350 child pornography cases a month.
   
   Investigators use forensic equipment inside a mobile crime lab named
   "The Beast" to scan through hard drives for any illicit images.
   
   In May, Michael Quinn, 33, traveled from Australia to Los Angeles to
   complete a deal to buy a 6-year-old boy for sex, according to the U.S.
   attorney's office in Los Angeles.
   
   Undercover agents met Quinn on a social media networking site, where he
   had communicated that he wanted to "meet up with a dad who shares his
   young one," according to prosecutors.
   
   "Quinn explained to the undercover agent he was hoping to meet 'other
   pervs' in the U.S. and ultimately agreed to pay a human trafficker $250
   to provide him with a young boy with whom he could engage in illicit
   sex," according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.
   
   Quinn went to a hotel in Los Angeles, where he planned to meet and
   party with three other child predators and engage in sex with boys,
   prosecutors said.
   
   Instead, undercover agents were waiting inside the hotel room.
   
   After Quinn handed money to an agent, who was posing as a sex
   trafficker, law enforcement authorities entered the room and arrested
   him, prosecutors said.
   
   Weeks later in Riverside, authorities arrested Kounzong Saebphang, 26,
   a monk, at his home in the Wat Lao Buddhist Monastery in Riverside.
   
   Authorities were investigating Saebphang since last year when they
   received information that he was possibly distributing child
   pornography, according to the Riverside County district attorney's
   office.
   
   When federal investigators searched the monastery, they found at least
   one digital device containing child pornography in his belongings,
   prosecutors said.
   
   Prosecutors alleged he also distributed child pornography to another
   person through a social media site.
   
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