Cops nab 660 pedophiles in UK

They include doctors, teachers and care workers. They allegedly downloaded or distributed child abuse images. British police have arrested 660 suspected pedophiles in a 6-month operation targeting people watching indecent images online. The country-wide investigation identified 431 children who were in the “care, custody or control” of the suspects, including 127 who were deemed to be at immediate risk of harm. Britain has been rocked by a series of pedophile scandals in the past 2 years, since revelations that late BBC television host Jimmy Savile was a serial sex offender. The unprecedented operation involved searches of 833 properties and more than 9,000 computers, phones and hard drives.

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