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Operation Laminar, global child pornography ring, shut down by New Zealand officials

Operation Laminar, an online child pornography ring spanning 20 countries, was shut down with the help of New Zealand officials.

A traffic sign depicting children is pictured at the Benedictine-run Ettal Monastery is pictured in Ettal, Germany. Munich prosecutors opened an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by priests made by 20 alumni of the Benedictine-run Ettal Monastery school in Bavaria, while a lawyer involved in the case charged that hundreds of boys had been beaten, many of them severely, by staff at the school decades ago.

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