Child pornography ring busted

Australian police have charged 19 men with being part of a global child pornography network involving people in 70 countries.



The investigation was prompted by a tip-off from Brazilian police.



The victims were from countries around the world and their identities were often difficult to establish.



Some 500,000 images of child abuse and 15,000 videos were seized. The Australian Federal Police said that more arrests were expected this week.



Some of the seized videos showed victims as young as 12 months old. Some showed children being abused for more than two hours.



The police described the images as some of the worst they had ever seen.