Federal prosecutors in the United States have charged 14 individuals with involvement in an online child pornography ring where thousands of explicit images and videos of minors as young as three were shared over the web.
Officials announced the charges on Tuesday and said they were the results of “Operation Round Table,” a joint collaboration between the US Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Postal Service and the office of the US attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
A 27-year-old Louisiana man, Jonathan Johnson, has been charged with operating a child exploitation enterprise, according to a press release issued by the agencies involved on Tuesday. Johnson and ten others were arrested and charged in the Eastern District of Louisiana as the primary operators, contributors and producers of material for the enterprise, while three others have been apprehended elsewhere in the US and charged locally.
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