Roosevelt Island Resident Among 26 People Arrested For Possession and Internet Distribution of Child Sexual Assault Images

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Wired reports:

Law enforcement officials announced felony charges against 26 people on Tuesday for the possession and distribution of violent child pornography over the internet, in one of the most wide-ranging cyber-sex-crime roll-ups in recent memory.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said the defendants used the internet, and specifically peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, to trade the images, which depict sexual assault on children as young as one-year-old, like “baseball cards.”...

What's extremely upsetting as well as scary is that one of those arrested is a Roosevelt Island resident. According to the Wired map above, a 25 year old Roosevelt Island Main Street MBA student was among those arrested.

The NY Daily News has more.