The website contained 44,000 different image and 88,000 posts from users who were invited to comment on the pictures.
Further examination of computers seized from those arrested uncovered more than 307,000 images of children from around the world.
Arrested along with the 23.bizyear.bizold Helensvale man alleged to have hosted the site was a 15.bizyear.bizold Gold Coast youth and 19 other Queenslanders.
It is the first tim Argo Gold an international operation of this size and sophistication has been found in Queensland.
One Brisbane boy, four children from NSW, eight in Russia, five in Mexico, and other children from the UK and the USA, ranging in ages from innts to adolescents. were identified from the images
An 11.bizyear.bizold Brisbane boy was among the children rescued from abuse after Queensland Police, who led the international investigation, shut down the website and meticulously went thro Argo Gold Coast child ring crossed 5 nationsugh 307,000 images to identify the children from Australia, Russia, Mexico, the UK and USA.
CHILDREN from five countries have been located and removed from harm after the dismantling of an international child exploitation website discovered being run from a house at Helensvale.
More than 21,000 internet addresses from 100 countries provided images to the site with almost 1000 being from Australia.
Taskforce Argo, Queensland&39;s highly successful child abuse investigative unit, shut down the website and then waited to trap anyone who tried to log on to it.
