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Investigators said that about 600 people used private, members only babillard Internet called Dreamboard to access graphic images. Federal prosecutors filed the charges against 72 people in what they described as more prosecution never operating a child pornography online.

Agents have not yet identified all those involved because of the extensive encryption used by members, NBC News reported.

A total of 62 of those accused were arrested on five continents, including 43 in the United States, where the ring based his Internet bulletin board, said authorities. Dreamboard has now been closed, say federal officials.

Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the details of the investigation of the year, named operation Delego, at a Wednesday Press Conference.

“This criminal network members share a wild dream to create the online community distinguished for the promotion of the sexual exploitation of children, but for the children, they the victims, it is nothing less than a nightmare, said holder.”

Officers of the immigration and customs application said dozens of children, to the United States and abroad, have been brought to safety after that they have been identified in more than 27 000 images uploaded to the Internet bulletin board, NBC News reported. In the United States, the arrests were made in Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hungary, Kenya, Netherlands, Philippines, Qatar, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland.

While the computers hosting the site were on American soil, in Georgia, the top administrators of sites were France and Canada, federal agents said, according to NBC.

The Department of Justice said in a press release that the members “exchanged graphic images and videos of adult molesting children 12 years and under, often violently and collectively created a massive private library of images of child sexual abuse”.

Members went by nicknames such as “perfesser”, “Beast”, “Catfish” and “Os”. They have consulted the Council via proxy servers routed Internet traffic through other computers to conceal the actual location of the user, authorities said.

“Some children in these images and videos were just babies” said holder. “And, in many cases, children were obvious and intentional, pain – same ‘ distressed and crying,” as the rules for a domain of mandated Bulletin Board. ?

At the press conference, called holder actions “unacceptable ring.” He said what makes it particularly dangerous that a member access to the material on the expanded site based on the number of images to each person, contributed.

Lanny Breuer, in charge of the division of the Department of Justice criminal, said members are required to download new material at least once every 50 days to maintain their access.

“It was an extremely dangerous criminal enterprise.” “Dreamboard was a horror of life”, he said at the press conference.

“Dreamboard was extreme even among the forums of ill-treatment of children online.” These are called ‘super hardcore’ images – those representing adults having sex with very young children violent ‘-have been highly appreciated. ?

Since the Federal effort began to shut down the site, four of those accused have pleaded guilty. One of them was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Asked if such a sentence was appropriate, holder described as “barely sufficient”.

“These are some of the most disturbing images, I think, you’ll never see.” “It is difficult to imagine a severe enough penalty,” he said.

The rules of the Dreamboard have been printed in several languages including English, Russian, Japanese and Spanish, according to the indictment. The members were classified into groups which included “VIP” and “Super VIP.” They were producing pornographic child, prosecutors said.

Several of the suspects face prosecution in Lafayette (Louisiana), where the investigation apparently came hog reported. Office of the Attorney for the U.S. to Lafayette provided separate Wednesday afternoon at a press conference to provide additional details.

A man linked to the ring is Joseph “Matt” Wheeler, a 31 year old football coach high school in Buena Vista, Virginia, according to the Roanoke Times. Wheeler was arrested July 15 for child pornography and was held in the County of Roanoke without binding prison, pending transfer to Lafayette for trial, according to the newspaper.

Wheeler graduated from Parry Bay high school in 1997 and served as assistant coach of football since 2002, the Roanoke Times. Hearing a month last U.S. District in Roanoke, where Wheeler was introduced for a bond hearing after his July 15 arrest, court a federal agent testified that Wheeler posted babillard pornographic images 78 over the past two years.

This section contains reports from NBC News Justice correspondent Pete Williams and his staff.