This week has been unsettling to good people around the world. Live streaming of heinous war crimes permeate our living rooms each night and we experience it like we were actually there. A most common comment is "how can this be happening in this day and age".

Many of us have watched the Supreme Court Confirmation hearings as we hear legal opinions about global online child pornography rings and we examine sentencing guidelines for perpetrators who engage in possession, manufacturing and distribution of images or live streaming of child exploitation. The candidate and indeed, some 70% of judges across the U.S. have supported leniency in sentencing of child pornography cases siting the impact of the Internet and how it has changed pedophilia behavior.

This week we will explore how world wide internet connection has brought together online pedophile groups on a scale hard to imagine. Law Enforcement has just announced the investigation and take down of a dark web pedophile ring called "Boystown" that had over 400,000 members who bought, sold and traded gruesome images of children and teens being sexually exploited.

The Internet does make it easier for pedophiles to access child pornography and share it with others.

But lost in this discussion is that there are now more victims than ever before, and the very nature of the world wide web means that their exploitation will be viewed by millions of people for years to come.

Boystown bust: German prosecutors say child porn platform had 400,000 members | CTV News

Boystown: Dark Web Child Abuse Image Site Immediately Taken Down | Dark Web Link | Deep web Onion Links | Darknet News

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