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This is what I hate. Thousands of people involved in this travesty of morality and they specifically mention 2 priests out of 7,000 people. How many police were involved?
How about attorneys? Doctors? Construction workers?
Dozens arrested in child inappropriate content probe
50 more arrests expected by week's end
March 18, 2002 Posted: 5:21 PM EST (2221 GMT)

Ashcroft, left, and Gebhardt announce the arrests .

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI said Monday 27 people who have confessed to molesting 36 children have been arrested in a major ongoing investigation into child inappropriate contentography over the Internet.

"When we pursue child inappropriate contentography, the path often leads to evidence of real sexual predators who have abused real children," said U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The investigation, dubbed "Operation Candyman," focused on an e-group, or online "community," whose 7,000 members uploaded, downloaded or traded images of sexually exploited children.

"Forty individuals in 20 states are now in custody, with another 50 expected by weeks end," FBI Executive Assistant Director Bruce Gebhardt.

"They include members of the clergy, law enforcement officers, a nurse, a teachers aide, a school bus driver, and others entrusted with protecting, nurturing and educating the American youth," he said.

Gebhardt said special priority was placed on arresting suspects in positions of trust.

"These individuals must be stopped," Ashcroft said during the news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington.

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From the FBI: Operation Candyman page

"There will be no free ride on the Internet for traffickers of child inappropriate contentography," Ashcroft said, warning those who engage in that activity would be tracked down and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

The 14-month investigation of the international ring involved all 56 FBI field offices across the country and law enforcement in other countries.

Officials said the images used by the ring were not child erotica or images of nude children playing.

Mike Heimbach, chief of the FBI's Crimes Against Children unit, described the images as "very explicit ... hard-core sexual exploitation of our children.

Investigators identified 7,000 e-mail addresses linked to the "Candyman" e-group, with 4,600 in the United States and 2,400 in other countries. Subpoenas were issued for addresses in the United States.

The FBI office in Houston, which led the investigation, then focused on 1,400 subjects, breaking them down into two groups.

Those suspects were then prioritized by the amount of activity -- how many images they would upload, download or trade.

Within that group, special focus was given to people who held positions of trust -- including clergy, members of law enforcement or the military, teachers' aides and others.


Ashcroft shows a map of locations where Candyman probe took place.
Two of the inappropriate contentography ring suspects are Catholic priests, the FBI said.

Since January, accusations have led to dozens of priests nationwide being suspended or forced to resign and priests' names being turned over to prosecutors.

The operation was named after an e-group the investigation centered on -- thecandyman -- in which individuals communicated about and distributed child inappropriate contentography.

"As its name indicates, the Candyman e-group had a single purpose in mind as well: To exploit and degrade children," Gebhardt said. "The FBI is committed to protecting America's children from pedophiles and inappropriate contentographers."
 
It really is a sick world. I suppose they mentioned the Priests because most people (me included, I admit) expect men of God, and especially men of the Cloth, to have higher standards. I realize that as a man of the Cloth they are still just sinful man, just like the rest of us, but I guess I'm disappointed and shocked like the remainder of the world when a man of this stature is involved in such a hideous sin. ~kim
 
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>>I realize that as a man of the Cloth they are still just sinful man, just like the rest of us,

Like the rest of us? Are you involved in sexual sin? If you are you need to repent. The Bible is clear that anyone involved in that kinda sin will not inherit the Kingdom of God. They will be cast out.

1 Cor. 6:18-20
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. [19] Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? [20] For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
 
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